Get Your Back Up Off the Wall 

And Come to This Show About Dance Styles in Hip-Hopby Charles MudedeThere is a scene in Downtown 81 that our current situation (the early days of Trump's second term) can learn from. The year is 1981. Reaganomics is bringing to an end the pre- and post-war policies and programs that vastly expanded the US's middle-class. Interest rates are rising to 20%. Labor is under attack. Cities are rotting. And in an East Village basement (or at least what looks like a basement), we find people dancing to