BCR (Brick City Rock) is one of the regional manifestations of the
Jailhouse rock (fighting style)
Jailhouse rock or 52 Hand Blocks is a name used to describe a collection of fighting styles that were practiced or developed within black urban communities in the 1960s and 1970s. It has a mythological origin story of having been originated wit ...
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It can be traced in origin to
Newark, New Jersey
Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.
Watch The History of 52 Blocks Documentary (2009)
* Douglas Century, Street Kingdom: Five Years Inside the Franklin Avenue Posse, Warner Books, 2000,
* Douglas Century, "Ghetto Blasters: Born in prison, raised in the 'hood, the deadly art of 52 Blocks is Brooklyn's baddest secret", Details magazine 19:9, pp 77–79, August 2001.
* Dennis Newsome, Jailhouse Rock (A.k.a) 52 blocks system.
* http://malandros-touro.com/jailhouserock.html
* Green, Thomas "Freeing the Afrikan Mind: the Role of Martial Arts in Contemporary African American Cultural Nationalism", essay featured in "Martial Arts in the Modern World", Praeger Publishers, 2003,
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* J.S. Soet, Martial Arts Around the World'', Unique Publications, 1991
North American martial artsSports in Newark, New Jersey
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