Hip-Hop

• Hip-hop originated in Bronx, New York City around 1970s.
• Hip-hop culture is from the African American group of people who were looking for a creative outlet to vent their frustrations and disappointments with society.
• Hip-hop started with funky beats reverberating at house or basement parties and the streets of New York.
• According to Aldridge and Stewart (2005), hip-hop has developed as a "cultural and artistic phenomenon affecting the youth worldwide as it reflects the social, economic, political, and cultural realities and conditions of their lives, speaking to them in a language and manner they understand.
• Afrika Bambaataa, a New York rapper, invented the term Hip-Hop and was dubbed as the grandfather of Hip-Hop.
• Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell, the godfather of hip-hop, is known for his work in disc jockeying, also known as Djing, which involves scratching or turn-table record mixing.
• Break dancing, also known as B-boying, is an elaborate social dance from that came from teenage Latino and African American males in the South Bronx of New York City circa 1970.
• Break dancing started as a form of fighting, a mixture of physically demanding movements which exploited the power the performers, and stylized punching and kicking movements.
• Graffiti Art, also known as aerosol art, is a fundamental part of hip-hop culture.
• Hip-hop is a dance style performed to hip-hop music and usually done in the street.
• Street dance, a "Filipinized version" of hip-hop dance, was specifically used by Filipino dances.
• Battles are dance crews coming from different places engaging in freestyle dance competitions.
• Street dance elements include bounce or recoil, tightening of the body, agility and coordination, and fun.
• Street dance styles include Old School Style (Breaking, Popping, Locking), New School Style (Krumping, House, Street Jazz, Waacking, Vogue, Tutting).
• Battles. Dance crews coming from different places engage in freestyle dance competitions. There were no designated 'judges' in these battles and the winners are characterized by their "virtuosity, style, and wit"
• Big scale. Held in barangays during local gatherings or special occasions like fiestas
• Small scale. Held within a certain group or community like in schools
• Bounce or recoil – it is a quick contraction or retraction, or vise-versa movement with energy and vitality.
• Tightening of the body – the body is controlled with firmness and strength to prepare it for explosive and sudden movements
• Agility and coordination – it must be able to move quickly and smoothly from one position to the other with ease.
• Fun – an essential element of hip-hop, which offers its dancers a mechanism to offer kinetic musicality with a bravado that easily consumed by an immobile audience
• Breaking – also known as break dancing, it is an unstructured and highly improvisational style that incorporated gymnastics and acrobatic movement
• Popping – a quick contraction and relaxation of muscles to producing jerking of various points
• Locking – it relies on fast, distinct arm and hand movements combined with relaxed hips and legs wherein lock is the basic move used
• Street Jazz – combination of hip-hop dance style and jazz dance movements
• Krumping – characterized by unrestrained, rapid-fire, and highly energetic moves of the limbs and torso
• House – dance style that “emphasizes fast, complex footsteps with fluid movements of the torso
• Waacking – a dance style that was created in dance clubs on the west coast of the USA, 1970s. Characterized by a focus on arm movements, creating shapes and poses above and around the head in fast-moving style
• Vogue – a highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s
• 6. Tutting – a hip-hop dance style that emphasizes the body’s ability to crate geometric shapes and movements
• Rapping (MCing) – Vocal element. Rap music is the heart of the hip-hop musical genre
• Disc Jockeying (Djing) – Means scratching or turn-table record mixing