Hip Hop Flashcards
(24 cards)
REFERS TO STREET DANCE, A
DANCE THAT IS PRIMARILY
PERFORMED IN THE STREETS
HIP-HOP
immerged in the 1960s to 1970s
HIP-HOP
The GODFATHER of Hip-Hop
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
The founder of Hip-Hop
DJ KOOL HERC
Elements of Hip-Hop
EMCEEING/MCing DEEJAYING BREAKING GRAFFITI BEAT BOXING
A HOSTS AT
HIP-HOP PARTIES
WHO WOULD
PROMPT THE
BREAKERS TO
DANCE
EMCEEING/MCing
THE JOB IS TO
PLAY RECORDED
MUSIC FOR AN
AUDIENCE EITHER
ON RADIO OR LIVE
PERFORMANCE
DEEJAYING
STARTED IN NEW YORK IN THE 1970s
BREAKING
LATE 1970’S, SERIES OF BLENDED MOVEMENTS
STYLES SUCH AS JAZZ AND MARTIAL ARTS.
BREAKING
A FORM OF ART
EXPRESSION BUT
CONSIDERED AS
ILLEGAL
GRAFFITI
THE ABILITY TO
MAKE A BEAT
WITH ONE’S
MOUTH INSTEAD
OF DRUMS/DRUM
MACHINE
BEAT BOXING
Tips in Hip-Hop dancing
- Choose upbeat music
- feel relax before stepping the
- dance floor
- Move the hips
- Master the moves
- watch dance videos from the television/take some dance lessons
reason why hip-hop was created
The Bronx, New York community was struggling with social issues and needed a form of expression
Community wherein the Hip-hop dance originated from
African-American community in New York
Ethnicity of DJ Kool Herc
Jamaican (immigrant)
other term for Emceeing
call and response
Disc Jockey
Deejaying
What DJ Kool Herc called the people who danced Hip-hop
Bboys and Bgirls
most famous hip-hop movements
breaking/ break dancing
term in Hip-hop: no need to adhere to specific sequence of dance
Freestyle movement of hip-hop dance
were informal dance battles in the bronx
battle
dance circles with one dancer in the middle
cipher
characterized with sudden pause and freezing of motion
Locking
quick releasing and contracting of muscles, jerking movements
Popping
