Hip hop began in the Bronx in the 1970s and has four main elements - deejaying, emceeing, breaking, and graffiti. Deejaying involved DJ Kool Herc playing rhythmic breaks from songs to get people dancing. Emceeing started as MCs prompting breakers and evolved into rapping. Breaking, also known as b-boying/b-girling, is a style of dance performed to hip hop music. Graffiti developed alongside hip hop music and dance. Hip hop dance styles include locking, popping, krumping, wacking, tutting, the Melbourne Shuffle, and breaking.
Hip hop began in the Bronx in the 1970s and has four main elements - deejaying, emceeing, breaking, and graffiti. Deejaying involved DJ Kool Herc playing rhythmic breaks from songs to get people dancing. Emceeing started as MCs prompting breakers and evolved into rapping. Breaking, also known as b-boying/b-girling, is a style of dance performed to hip hop music. Graffiti developed alongside hip hop music and dance. Hip hop dance styles include locking, popping, krumping, wacking, tutting, the Melbourne Shuffle, and breaking.
Hip hop began in the Bronx in the 1970s and has four main elements - deejaying, emceeing, breaking, and graffiti. Deejaying involved DJ Kool Herc playing rhythmic breaks from songs to get people dancing. Emceeing started as MCs prompting breakers and evolved into rapping. Breaking, also known as b-boying/b-girling, is a style of dance performed to hip hop music. Graffiti developed alongside hip hop music and dance. Hip hop dance styles include locking, popping, krumping, wacking, tutting, the Melbourne Shuffle, and breaking.
Hip hop began in the Bronx in the 1970s and has four main elements - deejaying, emceeing, breaking, and graffiti. Deejaying involved DJ Kool Herc playing rhythmic breaks from songs to get people dancing. Emceeing started as MCs prompting breakers and evolved into rapping. Breaking, also known as b-boying/b-girling, is a style of dance performed to hip hop music. Graffiti developed alongside hip hop music and dance. Hip hop dance styles include locking, popping, krumping, wacking, tutting, the Melbourne Shuffle, and breaking.
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Hip Hop began to do rhythmic call-
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performed to hip hop music or that audience, a technique that have evolved as part of hip hop eventually morphed into the culture. It includes a wide range of poetic form of rapping that styles primarily breaking which was we know now. created in the 1970s and made 3. Breaking popular by dance crews in the - The dance element of hip- United States. It is a style of dance hop, performed by dancers with deep historical and social roots called B-Girls or B-Boys. in African American culture. It’s a Birthed in the late 1970s in part of a whole culture of Hip Hop, New York, breaking blended which started in the 1970’s in the movement styles such as Bronx, New York. jazz and martial arts with dance styles from the DJ Kool Herc Caribbean, Latin America, ● Clive Campbell (real name), born and Africa. B-Girls and B- April 16, 1955 Boys got their name because ● Father of Hip Hop they danced over the DJ’s ● Jamaican-American DJ who is “breaks” at hip-hop parties in credited for originating Hip Hop the Bronx. music. 4. Graffiti - It is hip-hop’s visual element. Elements of Hip Hop The modern form of graffiti or 1. Deejaying “graff” actually began before - DJ: The DJ existed before hip-hop music and dance, hip-hop. It’s an acronym for but it quickly became a part the word disc jockey. of the culture as many graffiti Originally, the DJ’s job was artists grew up in the same to play recorded music for an area as other hip-hop artists. audience either on radio or Many graffiti artists are live for an audience. But the emcees, deejays, and/or hip-hop DJ took it to the next breakers. level by making records spinning into an art form Benefits of Hip Hop called turntablism. ● Increased flexibility 2. Emceeing ● Better balance - Emcee: an acronym for the ● Increased coordination Master of Ceremonies. ● Development of muscle Emcees began as hosts at ● Build self-confidence hip-hop parties who would ● Artistic expression prompt the breakers to ● Physical Activity dance. Influenced by original spoken-word artists, emcees Hip Hop Dance Styles 1. Locking feet. The youths who started - It is a style of funk dance, Krump saw the dance as a which is today also way for them to escape gang associated with hip hop. The life and “to express raw name is based on the emotions in a powerful but concept of locking non-violent way”. movements, which basically 4. Wacking means freezing from a fast - It is a form of street dance movement and “locking” in a created in the LGBT clubs of certain position for a position, Los Angeles during the holding that position for a 1970s disco era. The style is short while and then typically done to 70s disco continuing at the same speed music and is mainly as before. distinguishable by its Don Campbell rotational arm movements, - He is a hip hop dance innovator. He posing and emphasis on invented the Campbellock, better expressiveness. known as locking, an idiosyncratic Tyrone Proctor style that became one of the first - He is a pioneer of waacking style street dances to gain widespread and co-founder of the Imperial attention. House of Waacking, along with Jody 2. Popping Watley are the mother and father of - It is a dance style that started the style both from the 1970s dance in the late 1960’s and 70’s. group The Outrageous Waack this dance style is Dancers. characterized by sudden 5. Tutting tensing and releasing of the - It is the kind of hip hop style muscles “hitting” to the that uses the body's ability to rhythm of beats in music, create geometric shapes, Sam Solomon positions (such as boxes) - He is credited as the creator of and movements, popping and boogaloo, Sam predominantly with the use of Solomon aka “Boogaloo Sam” right angles. It generally founded the Electronic Boogaloo focuses on the arms and Lockers, later known as the Electric hands, and includes the very Boogaloos, in 1977. famous finger tutting. 3. Krumping 6. Melbourne Shuffle - It is a street dance - It is a rave dance that popularized in the United developed in the 1980s. States, characterized by free, Typically performed to expressive, exaggerated, electronic music, the dance and highly energetic originated in the Melbourne movement involving the rave scene, and was popular arms, head, legs, chest, and in the 1980s and 1990s. 7. Breaking/Breakdancing - B-boying/B-girling is an athletic style of street dance from the United States. While diverse in the amount of variation available in the dance, breakdancing mainly consists of four kinds of movement: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes. - It is a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement that originated among African American and Latin American youths in the South Bronx of New York City during the early 1970s.