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cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and ’90s;
hip hop
the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming
speech that became the movement’s most lasting and influential art form.
hip hop
a dance style, usually danced to hip-hop music, that evolved from the hip-hop culture.
hiphop dance
The first dance associated with hip-hop was
breakdancing
hip-hop refers to a complex culture comprising four elements:
deejaying
rapping
graffiti painting
b-boying
encompasses hip-hop dance, style, and attitude, along with the sort of virile body language that philosopher Cornel West described as “postural semantics.”
b-boying
also known as “MCing” or “rhyming”;
rapping
“turntabling”;
deejaying
also known as “graf” or “writing”;
grafitti painting
Hip-hop originated in
African American economically depressed South Bronx section of New York City in the late 1970s.
the aspects of the culture that first caught public attention, had the least lasting effect.
Grafitti and break dancing
, the graffiti movement was started about
1972
a Greek American teenager who signed, or “tagged,
taki 183
where did taki 138 name dervied>?
(his name and street, 183rd Street) on walls throughout the New York City subway system.
The first major hip-hop deejay was
DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell),
an 18-year-old immigrant who introduced the huge sound systems of his native Jamaica to inner-city parties.
DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell),
Using two turntables, he melded percussive fragments from older records with popular dance songs to create a continuous flow of music.
Kool herc
Types of Hip Hop Dance Styles:
Locking Popping Electric Boogie Breakdance / B-Boying Uprock Funk Streetdance Tutting/Tetris Battle Liguid Dancing Boogaloo Ragga House Dance Lyrical Stepping Free Running Punking Waacking Voguing
locking was originally?
campbellocking
can be traced back to the late 1960’s and was created by Don Campbell.
locking
It is a style of funk and street dance and originally danced to traditional funk music such as James Brown.
locking
what is the concept of locking?
freezing from a fast movement and “locking” in a certain position, holding that position for a short while and then continuing in the same speed as before. It relies on fast and distinct arm and hand Hip Hop Manual movements combined with more relaxed hips and legs. The movements are generally large and exaggerated, and often very rhythmic and tightly synced with the music.
includes quite a lot of acrobatics and physically demanding moves, such as landing on one’s knees and the split.
locking
These moves often require knee protection of some sort.
locking