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3 elements, or 4 elements?

Chinita

Date: Friday, 24/Jul/09, 3:05 AM | Message # 16

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The four fundamental elements are:

MCing or Rapping: Stemming from the initials for “Master of Ceremonies,” rapping is the art of saying rhymes to the beat of music. It draws its roots from the Jamaican art form known as toasting. The influences of present day rap can be traced to artists like James Brown, The Last Poets and Gil Scott Heron, along with old “dozens” rhymes and jail house jargon passed down through the years and made popular by Black activist H. Rap Brown.

Graffiti: The first forms of subway graffiti were quick spray-painted or marker signatures ("tags") of one’s crew, gang or nickname. Graffiti evolved into large elaborate calligraphy, complete with color effects, shading and more. Graffiti is now recognized as a force in contemporary visual art and is collected by major art institutions worldwide as well as remaining an expression of rebellion and youth culture in public spaces.

DJing: The art of “cuttin' and scratchin'” and the manipulation of a vinyl record over a particular groove so it produces a high-pitched recombinant scatching sound is known as DJing. The term also refers to the practice of selecting dance party records or other songs in a compelling thematic sequence. This was invented by Grand Master Flash and Grand Wizard Theodore, two popular disc jockeys from the Bronx.

B-Boying: The acrobatic style of dance that includes headspins, backspins and gymnastic style flairs (long before Olympic athlete Kirk Thompson) is called breakdancing. No one knows who New York's first break dancer was, but a group of youngsters known as “BBoys” or Break Boys and original members of an organization called Zulu Nation popularized it. At the same time breakdancing became known in the streets and dancehalls of New York, Black and Latino communities in California popularized a style of dance known as “Pop-Locking.” This particular West Coast form includes strutting, moon-walking, waving and angular, staccato or robot-like contortions of the body. With the broadcast of Don Cornelius’s dance-party television show Soul Train, breakdancing soon became a nation-wide phenomenon.

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Some members of the community have added activism. Many see hip-hop as a larger movement—more than just a musical or cultural genre.

The hip-hop generation, the first to emerge after the civil rights and black powermovement, has benefited from the cultural desegregation that followed those movements.