What is hip hop music?

Hip-hop The so-called HIP-HOP dance is the most popular hip-hop dance at present. From the perspective of dance, it can be divided into two categories: new school and old school. How to distinguish these two categories? We can distinguish them by age, action or music type. In fact, hip hop is the floorboard of all kinds of hip hop. In fact, what we call break dancing or old school is also a kind of hip-hop. This old school dance includes locking, popping, breaking and fluctuating. New hip-hop is "original hip-hop". His unique style is that he pays attention to the coordination of the body (we call it rhythm). He attaches great importance to the rhythm of the upper body and adds a lot of hand movements. He no longer looks at large-scale movements and footwork movements like old-school hip-hop. Michael Jackson's Remabe the time MTV is such a so-called in-situ dance. In Mary Kelly's R&lover song MTV, a group of black people dance in a strange style, accompanied by R&; B-style hip-hop music. This is the origin of the popularity of new schools around the world. In a word, the new hip-hop includes all kinds of hip-hops, including LOCKING, POPING, WAVE, and the rhythm of MC HAMMER and bobby brown. But there is no shadow of break dancing in the new hip-hop.

What is the house? House is part of the new school dance. The house starts around 1988. Dance to House's music. Hip-hop music is mostly listened to by black Americans, but House's music is loved by different races and all kinds of people. Dr. house is like disco music in the' 70 s So many cultural colors have joined the house club. House's dance was gradually established in such an environment. Hispanics have Sarah or Mirenger backgrounds. Africans dance African dances, Brazilians dance Capoeira (an African-Brazilian art), B-Boy, hip-hop, jazz and tap dancing. All these people created indoor dances in new york. Capoeira had a great influence on House. Ejoy said: When you dance House, music controls your body, but when you dance Hip-Hop, you must control your body to adapt to the rhythm. This means that House dance is more liberal than hip-hop, and House puts more emphasis on footwork. In new york, hip-hop clubs often have many problems, such as fighting. So people can't just enjoy dancing. This makes House Club very popular in new york. The most popular indoor club in new york is the Sound Factory Bar on Wednesday.

Breanking B-boying is a hip hop dance, famous for Breaking, which consists of top or up rock, footwork, rotation (power action) and freezing. B-boying is from the Bronx, new york. B-boy or B-boying is an extension of a DJ named Kool Herc who "grinds" records in the Bronx every day. B-boys are those people who only dance during the pause of music. Maybe we can say that the dancer who specializes in the old-school series, especially BREAKIN, is called B-BOY. Then, the DJ kept repeating this music rhythm, which led to the birth of breakbeats. Although people tend to explore this aspect of power movements, the real b-boys should be proficient in all the principles of b-boying. There are two types of b-boys now. One is to emphasize the transfer and merger of power. The other is to emphasize footwork and freezing. Rock Steady Crew emphasizes footwork to show the dancer's personal style. Even if the strength movements have strong impact and considerable vitality, it is difficult to integrate personal style into these movements. When rotating, the strength movement really can't be integrated into the beat. It's a bit like gymnastics, but it's not like dancing. Because of these factors, the rock steady crew put forward in 1990 that the style of emphasizing footwork tends to break. Break dancing is the most popular form of street dance. Although new school dances, such as hip hop and house, have spread to some big cities in the United States and Japan, they have spread all over the world. Origin: Their dance is called Good Foot, which is named after james brown's record. Good feet is the earliest freestyle dance, including the movements of falling and spinning, as well as the dance steps similar to those in the early stage of breaking the game. The best way to describe good feet is based on Michael Holman, who imagined that the captain of the female drum team kicked high in the military parade, making him feel like a static movement in the rhythm of the drum team. When DJ invents new methods to prolong the beat of a record, dancers have more time to invent and try new dance steps. Soon, kneeling on the ground and jumping up again with the beat became the standard dance step of this dance. The first generation of b-boys was nicknamed Boye -OIE-OING. Footwork became popular when Boye -OIE-OING began to support his body with his arms so that his feet and legs could do steps similar to gymnastics. At the same time, a new dance step called Brooklyn Rock Uprocking began to appear in Brooklyn. They are also famous. The first generation of famous b-boys were "Nigel twins", "clark kent" and "King Zulu". About 1977, breaking gradually lost its popularity among black children and almost disappeared. Anyway, it was brought by a new generation of b-boy. A man named Puerto Rico breathed new life and took it into another field. They began to add many more difficult acrobatic gymnastics to the break and invented many new moves. Such as "Crazy Legs" directed by Jimmy Lee and Joe Joe and "Swirl and Windmill" developed by the original crew of "Rock Band". I want to point out that there are other breakers from new york, and they should also have supporters of b-boying. In addition, Bruce Lee and other kung fu stars and martial artists have a profound influence on b-boying's culture. In the middle and late 1970s, when Kung Fu movies became popular all over the world, it had a great influence on b-boying in new york. Many martial arts moves are integrated into b-boying. For example, the action used to turn up from the floor in Kung Fu, if repeated all the time, is now a windmill. In the 1980s, b-boying became more popular. This goes back to the movie Flash Dance {in 1983. (Actually, there were two movies before {Flash Dance}, but {Flash Dance} was the first movie with b-boying as the main character. Although, it is not a film focusing on b-boying. However, a short segment featuring b-boying and street popping in the film is enough to impress people all over the world and start playing b-boying. After {Flash Dance}, many explosive movies were made one after another. For example, Destruction King, Destruction King 2 and 2》《Beat Street. The rock-and-roll Steady Crew and the break dance in new york City in Beat Street are also the reasons why this film is impressive. The popularity of b-boying is due to the huge media, and it is precisely because of too much multimedia propaganda that TV media began to stop broadcasting things about b-boying, which made some people mistakenly think that b-boying was just a temporary craze. Immediately, many people began to think that b-boying had disappeared. Therefore, some b-boys began to stop letting the mass media influence b-boying and avoid letting the mass media distort b-boying. After 1985 or 1986, b-boying is also a flash in the pan in winter. But around 1990, b-boying came back to life. Everyone doesn't quite understand the reason, but what is certain is that it was brought by supporters who never gave up b-boying. As far as I know, California was the first place to make b-boying popular again. Nowadays, competitions organized by b-boys, such as the B-BOY SUMMIT and the anniversary of ROCK STEADY, are held every year and attract many b-boys from all over the world to maintain their culture and even try to reach another level.

Lock dance, also known as lock dance, mainly changes hands and locks, producing a dazzling sense of beauty and strength, belonging to the old school.

Popping dance Popping makes the body move like a robot, and uses the tension and relaxation of muscles to make the body vibrate and stop, while general Popping includes shoulders, chest, arms and legs. ...............................................................................................................................

Copoeira dance capoeira originated in Brazil in South America. At that time, mainly due to the slave-taking policy in South America, nobles and slave owners oppressed these African-American slaves by force (that is, African blacks who were sold from Africa to Brazil as slaves). When slaves could not bear the oppression of nobles and slave owners, everyone began to fight for freedom. The hands of these slaves were bound by chains, so naturally they began to develop various foot attacks to resist these nobles and slave owners who oppressed them. Later, it evolved into a popular dance art in Brazil and gradually joined the accompaniment of percussion instruments. This traditional art of African Brazilians is also a kind of dance. One of the cultural weapons was used to break slavery in Brazil. Music is used to teach the center of this melody and to cover up its power in Capoeira's progress. In front of slave owners, it looks like a game, a juggling dance, and at the same time it looks like a joke. Finally, the slaves knew the power of capoeira and ordered that it was forbidden to dance capoeira. In the era of slavery, if you were caught jumping Capoeira, death was punishment. Capoeira has been taught and practiced in secret for nearly 400 years. It was not until 1930 that this traditional African art was legally taught and practiced. Ka Poeira's smooth dance moves are quite close to the ground, following the rising melody or defeating the opponent's attack. Ginga, the most basic dance movement, was created by Capoeira Angola, and it is a movement from side to side. Other movements include handstands, or any similar attack with both feet. The center of this art is berimbau, an instrument made of steel strings like a bowl, and its echo is as loud as a gourd. During the Poeira Angolan competition, Bellingbao's signal is the beginning and end of the whole competition, which controls the whole style and speed. Berimbau usually plays with pandeiro (tambourine), agogo (African Clock) and atabaque (drums similar to conga drum). Understand the name of Angola's action ... Capoeira, which we see now, is mostly combined with House to form a new dance. With the popularity of tribal dance music in the world, more otaku dancers have combined the dance steps of Capoeira and House with tribal music, and developed new dance styles and performances. Or sometimes it becomes a floor action in house dance. Some ignorant dancers foolishly called it breaking the waves, even didn't understand its origin, thought it was an African dance, and took a strange name "chopping wave dance". In the eyes of these African Brazilians, Capoeira is not only one of their national dance arts, but also their game.

Uprock Dance Uprock is not as famous and popular as Breaking and Electric Boogie, but now it has been classified as a part of Breaking. Uprock is a kind of dance fighting. Dancers are close together, but they don't actually touch each other. His speed is very fast. It looks like a battle of Kung Fu, but it has more movements and rhythms than Kung Fu. Every action has its meaning, such as: I'm going to cut your throat. It sounds violent, but it is more violent than fighting, although it is obviously provoking others. Another action is that you grab a part of your opponent's body and give off a smell, indicating that you can do better than your opponent. Then, no matter what the opponent does, you also make the same action to fight back. This is standard procedure. Of course, you can also make your own movements. The history of UPROCK can be traced back to the early 1970s. At that time, the form of Uprock had gradually taken shape. If you can't keep up with the melody of the music, you lose. In the process of dancing, the masses will decide who is the winner. Of course, you may not believe that your friends are fair, because they will always say that you win (if your friends like you), and your opponent's friends will always say that he wins. Nowadays, more and more Uprock dancers dance solo without dancing with their opponents. Uprock dancers now also dance Breaking and Boogie, and the dancers of Breaking and Boogie have begun to add Uprock movements to their dance movements.

The so-called hip-hop music, with the development of the early public enemy, Run D.M.C, the promotion of MC Hammer and bobby brown, and the recent development of P. Diddy, will smith, Eminem, Jay-Z and Beast Boy, not only got rid of the color of black minority culture, but also became a music genre that can compete with pop music, rock music and dance music, and even became a chart. In fact, this Hip-Hop trend has already spread all over the world, and even expanded its influence through clothing, street dance, street graffiti, skateboarding and sporting goods closely related to Hip-Hop music. In order to let you have a deeper understanding of the territory of Asian hip-hop, the following will introduce the hip-hop culture and representative groups in Japan, South Korea, Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province in detail.

Asian Hip-hop Storm in Japan

Japan can be said to be the country most influenced by Hip-Hop in Asia. Influenced by the presence of American troops, several pubs specializing in hip-hop music appeared in Japan in the early days, and some live performances were held regularly, but it was not until 1995 and 1996 that the hip-hop craze officially broke out in Japan. Nowadays, in the streets of Japan, not only hip-hop costumes, hip-hop, street graffiti, skateboarding and hip-hop sporting goods can be seen everywhere, but also have already become a part of young people's lives. In addition, the proportion of young people listening to hip-hop is higher than that listening to alternative music or electronic music. As for the representative groups of Japanese hip-hop, they are Dragon Ash and Zeebra. Dragon Ash, composed of lead singer and guitarist Kenji Furuya, drummer Seiji Sakurai, bassist yuk zo racecourse and DJ BOTS, was originally composed of Kenji Furuya, Seiji Sakurai and Yukzo Race selected by the magazine as early as 1996, and began to perform live performances in Tokyo and Yokohama. 1997. They released a single "Rainy Day", and due to the good effect, they officially released their debut album "Wild Horse! In 1997 165438+ October. 1998, the second album Buzz Songs was released again. 1999,65438+10, Kenji Furuya invited his high school friend DJ BOTS to join us, and formally formed the current "Dragon Ash" lineup. 1997, they released their third album, Long Live the Revolution. This album, which sold more than two million yuan, not only made them famous, but also officially entered the ranks of pop stars. The most attractive thing about Dragon Ash is that they often combine exciting hip-hop beats with melodious rock tunes to produce an exciting and somewhat melancholy contrast effect, especially Thanksgiving Day, which samples The Smashing Pumpkins's Today. His real name is KINOMOTO SAKURA Xiuji, so he changed his name to Zeebra because he yearned for the black and white of zebra. He was the early MC of hip-hop band King Giddra. Because of his talent, he quickly became popular after publishing his personal works. Now he is a well-known "Japanese Hip Hop King" in Japan. He once collaborated with Dragon Ash on the hit single Thanksgiving Day, and released the singles Siva 1999 and ZUES 2000 together with Sugar Soul. In addition, he also released a set of "Ballroom Checker", "Synchronization" and "Future Impact", which attracted many Japanese hip-hop musicians. The solo album "Based on a True Story" supported by MACCHO, Boy-Ken, Muro and Inovader was released in June 2000. The biggest difference between Zeebra and "Dragon Ash" is that his music is pure black hip-hop, so he is not only regarded as the pioneer of Japanese hip-hop, but also respected by other emerging hip-hop bands in Japan.