High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The history of hip-hop dance encompasses the people and events since the 1970s that have contributed to the development of the early hip-hop dance styles of uprock, breaking, locking, popping, and boogaloo. Uprock and breaking were created by Black and Latino Americans in New York City. Locking, popping, and boogaloo-collectively referred to as the funk styles-were created by Black Americans in California. All these dance styles are different stylistically. They share common ground in their music and street origins, and in their improvisational nature.