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Click on your chosen dance style to view a brief history and access short videos.
Choose from 'High' (broadband) or 'Low' (Dial-up) video links depending on your connection. All clips are Windows Media. |
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Clips edited by Bryan Crotaz & Susannah
Traill. Camera: Tim Harcourt.
Thanks to STOIC www.stoictv.com and
to Renaissance Footnotes for the Period Clip. |
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Hip
Hop / Street Dance
Hip hop emerged during the early 1970s in the predominantly black
South Bronx ghetto of New York City. In the early days, gang members
formed break dance crews who went around challenging each other.
Hip hop consisted of four main elements; graffiti art, break dancing,
dj (cuttin' and scratching) and emceeing (rapping). The high energy
musical style, labelled as rap, combined elements of jazz, soul,
funk, rock 'n roll and West African drumming.
For a decade the street
was the only place to see and hear hip hop - black radio stations,
controlled by an older generation, ignored it until the first rap
records appeared in the 1980s. By that time, the movement had incorporated
west coast dance moves including popping and locking, and was spreading
into the white community. |
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