Hip-hop

- cultural movement that attained

widespread popularity in the 1980s
and ’90s;
- 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
- is a dance style, usually danced to hip-
hop music, that evolved from the hip-
hop culture.
- The first dance associated with hip-hop
was breakdancing
- While breakdancing consists primarily
of moves executed close to the ground,
the majority of hip- hop moves are
executed standing up.
Hip-hop
Although widely considered a synonym for rap
music, the term hip-hop refers to a complex culture
comprising four elements:
1.deejaying, or “turntabling”;
2.rapping, also known as “MCing” or
“rhyming”;
3.graffiti painting, also known as “graf” or
“writing”;
4.B-boying which encompasses hip-hop dance,
style, and attitude, along with the sort of virile body
language that philosopher Cornel West described as
“postural semantics.”
Hip-hop
ORIGINS AND THE OLD SCHOOL

• Hip-hop originated in the predominantly African

american economically depressed South Bronx
section of New York City in the late 1970s.
• Graffiti and break dancing, the aspects of the
culture that first caught public attention, had
the least lasting effect.
History of Hip-hop
• Reputedly, the graffiti movement was started about
1972 by a Greek American teenager who signed, or
“tagged,” Taki 183 (his name and street, 183rd
Street) on walls throughout the New York City
subway system.

• By 1975 youths in the Bronx, Queens,

and Brooklyn were stealing into train yards under
cover of darkness to spray-paint colourful mural-size
renderings of their names, imagery from underground
comics and television, and even Andy Warhol-like
Campbell’s soup cans onto the sides of subway
cars.
History of Hip-hop
• Soon, influential art dealers in the
United States, Europe, and Japan were
displaying graffiti in major galleries.
• New York City’s Metropolitan Transit
Authority responded with dogs, barbed-
wire fences, paint-removing acid baths, and
undercover police squads.
Hip-hop

The Empire
State Building
towering over a
wall of graffiti in
New York City.
History: HIP-HOP IN THE 21ST CENTURY

• Simultaneously, though, it solidified its standing

as the dominant influence on global youth
culture.
• Even the massively popular “boy bands,” such as
the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, drew heavily on
hip-hop sounds and styles, and rhythm and blues
and even gospel had adapted so fully to the
newer approach that stars such as Mary J .
Blige, R. Kelly, and Kirk Franklin straddled both
worlds.
Types of Hip Hop Dance Styles:
10. Liguid Dancing
1. Locking
11. Boogaloo
2. Popping 12. Ragga
3. Electric Boogie 13. House Dance
4. Breakdance / B-Boying 14. Lyrical
5. Uprock 15. Stepping
16. Free Running
6. Funk
17. Punking
7. Streetdance
18. Waacking
8. Tutting/Tetris 19. Voguing
9. Battle