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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
Other important stylistic features are waving of arms, pointing, walking stationary and grabbing and rotating the cap or hat.
locking
created the original freezes, incorporating his unique rhythm and adding gestures such as points and handclaps.
Don campbell
commonly use a distinctive dress style, such as colorful clothing with stripes, suspenders, pegged knee length pants, hats and gloves.
lockers
is quite performance oriented, often interacting with the audience by smiling or giving them a high five, and some moves are quite comical in nature.
Locking
The best way to describe the movement of ??? would be to imagine a force of energy going through the body causing it to move like a wave..
Popping
This style is difficult to manage at the technical level as it requiring command of isolations, a perfect knowledge of the body, and a good sense of the rhythm with major use of counter-tempo.
popping
The style demands continuous contraction of the muscles to the beat to give a jerky/snapping effect – a bouncy style.
popping
is a style of popping (ticking) but the major difference is that Popping creates a soft wave whereas ? creates more jerky waves with microwave moves, executed with a high velocity more difficult than classical popping.
electric boogie
The Robot, and the more smooth and controlled movements of mime are characteristic.
electric boogie
is more like mime in the sense that it imitates a live wire of electrical current or rippling river, but it still needs the control of The Robot to give it style.
electric boogaloo
commonly called breakdancing, is a style of dance that evolved as part of hip-hop culture among Black and Latino American youths in the South Bronx during the 1970s.
Breakdancing / b-boying
It is danced to both hip-hop and other genres of music that are often remixed to prolong the musical breaks.
Breakdancing / b-boying
a term referring to the upright dancing and shuffles.
Toprock,
which refers to footwork dancing
performed on the floor.
downrock
the poses that breakers throw into their dance sets to add punctuation to certain beats and end their routines.
freeze
These are the most impressive acrobatic moves normally made up of circular motions where the dancer will spin on the floor or in the air.
power moves
what are the 4 basic elements of breaking
toprock, downrock, freeze, power moves
is a soulful, competitive street dance using the rhythms of Soul, and Funk music.
uprock
The dance consists of foot shuffles, spins, turns, freestyle movements, sudden body movements called “jerks” and hand gestures called “burns”.
uprock
said to be mastered with discipline, patience, heart, soul, and knowledge.
uprock
dancing originated on the West coast of the United States, where it developed in the late 60’s as a reaction to the fusion of Soul and Disco, as well as early R’n’B and Hip Hop music.
funking
It is a highly choreographed dance form, similar to dances seen on commercial video clips. It features a mixture of sharp and fluid movements, popping & locking and animated expression.
funk
