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Hip hop dancing is an important aspect of the hip hop subculture in America. Though it involves complex dance steps and rhythmic intensity, most hip hop dancers do not have formal training. This style of dancing is strong and evocative, and it is gaining respect in the world of dance. more »
The difference between rap and hip hop is not rigidly defined. Most people agree that hip hop is a cultural phenomenon while rap is a style of music. Hip hop includes fashion and trends, while rap is limited to spoken rhythmic music. In short, rap can be hip hop, but hip hop cannot be rap. more »
Hip Hop dancing is more than just booty shaking and flipping hair. Without paying attention to the history of hip hop instead of the copycats, your crew just might come off looking like amateurs. Read more to find out details on how to compete in hip hop dance. more »
The history of hip hop and rap is elaborate and expansive. It is filled with different genres and changing cultural movements that have affected society at large. While primarily an urban invention of African-American and Latino American youths, hip hop and rap eventually took roots with the entire American lifestyle and the world in... more »
Producing a genre-specific song like hip hop requires that the maker understands the styles of that genre. Hip hop is relatively new to the world of music as it has only been recognized for a few decades. This leaves the creative door open for writers to produce material for the hip hop genre style of music that is original and genre... more »
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Hip hop as a cultural movement manifest in B-boying (breakdancing), graffiti writing, DJing and eMCeeing – is an artistic commitment to seize freedom from oppressive social conditions. This artistic commitment inherent in Hip Hop culture expresses a reality of human transcendence which was originally born out of the creative impulse and cultural improvisation of the oppressed African American, Afro-Caribbean and Latino American communities of New York City(with the South Bronx as the epicenter) in the late 1970s.Stover>chang>Stover> It was DJ Afrika Bambaataa that outlined the five pillars of hip-hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking, graffiti writing, and knowledge. Other elements include beatboxing, hip hop fashion, and slang. Since first emerging in the Bronx, the lifestyle of hip hop culture has spread around the world. When hip hop music began to emerge, it was based around disc jockeys who created rhythmic beats by looping breaks (small portions of songs emphasizing a percussive pattern) on two turntables, which is now more commonly referred to as sampling. This was later accompanied by "rapping" (a rhythmic style of chanting or poetry more formally in 16 bar measures or time frames) and beatboxing, a vocal technique mainly used to imitate percussive elements of the music and various technical effects of hip hop DJs. An original form of dancing and particular styles of dress arose among followers of this new music. These elements experienced considerable refinement and development over the course of the history of the culture.
The relationship between graffiti and hip hop culture arises from the appearance of new and increasingly elaborate and pervasive forms of the practice in areas where other elements of hip hop were evolving as art forms, with a heavy overlap between those who wrote graffiti and those who practiced other elements of the culture.
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Jamaican born DJ Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell is credited as being highly influentia read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip+hop
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