Reflection Paragraph on Sources

On this post I am explaining how successful was I in finding good resources for my topic. I did find good resources for my topic very good resources that really helped mr with my topic and help me understand my project way more better. The site that was most useful was wikipedia. Wikipedia was useful to me by all the information that really helped me understand and learn more about my topic. The more trustworthy sites were http://www.theboombox.com. This site really was trustworthy because it helped me with getting me a chart for my blog that I could count on and think that it was true. The ones that displayed obvious bias was i don't think any of my sites did this.

Work Cited

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/hip_2.html

http://www.centralhome.com/hip-hop-dance-history.htm

http://ezinearticles.com/?hip-hop-dancing&id=407540

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blog.danceruniverse.com/images

http://rap.about.com/od/breakdancing101/p/Breakdancing.htm

Reflection Paragraph on Process

For this post I am talking about my process through my blog, which was about Hip Hop Dancing. First, I want to start with that doing this process it was a very easy process and i also learned a lot by researching and checking out things that had a lot to do with my topic. The reason why I said it was easy because since I already knew a lot about Hip Hop Dancing, little bit of the history of Hip Hop, and since it plays a very big part in my life I decided to pick it as my topic for my blog. It was easy not difficult. Well at least it was to me.

What i enjoyed most about doing this blog and my topic was that I learned A LOT of things about Hip Hop Dancing. Like I thought I already knew everything about my topic but wen I started to do my research on Hip Hop Dancing, I learned more and more each day I researched and read it. There is a dislike that I really didn't like when I did this project....... the fact that I had to find like quotes on my topic. It was hard because usually all the site for my topic was either blocked or really didn't talk about it but the good out way the bad. Everything came out good.

If I had to do this project again I would definitely do it on........ girls that have depression over like the way they look and they way they think because I have that problem were I feel like I am not as pretty, fit, and in good condition like most girls in high school and middle school feel. I would love to something like this again. It was really, really, really fun.

By: Allison Pertell

Reflection Paragraph on Findings

History of Hip Hop Dancing

If you don’t know anything else, you probably already know that hip hop has the beat that makes you want to get up and dance. But what do you really know about hip hop dance?

Did you know that this energetic dancing evolved with hip hop music and street jazz? It’s true. Today, hip hop has taken its place alongside ballet, tap, jazz and ballroom dancing; to name a few.

The first mention of hip hop dance dates back to the 70’s when some new moves were introduced to the dance world to accompany the funky sounds of hip hop music that was also being discovered. Most popular among African Americans and Latin Americans at first, there are many races who now lay claim to defining this diverse dance phenomenon.

Across the United States from the ‘Boogie Down’ Bronx, New York to the ‘Beat Street’ corners of Compton, California, young people everywhere took to this new style of dancing that included such feats as breaking, popping, locking, gliding, ticking, vibrating and krumping. In the earlier days, some hip hop dance moves such as the Humpty Dance were made popular by hip hop artists who had created the songs from which these dances were derived.

Early on, dance competitions on sidewalks included beat boxing, a form of music-making that included raps and special sound effects made with the hands and mouth. Artists like The Fat Boys rose to fame and fortune with Buffy’s beat boxing talents.

After the outbreak of interest in hip hop dance, there were even several movies highlighting this new form of dancing that combined beats, sounds, and gravity-defying moves. Crush Groove and other movies saw their day in the spotlight as hip hop dance continued to expand to different cultures and races and locations around the globe.

From freestyle forms that were often the spotlight of informal battles both indoors and outdoors to formally trained dancers who began to incorporate hip hop dance as a means of dance and physical exercise, hip hop dance has continued to evolve. Today, hip hop dance has earned a recognized place in dance studios and is practiced as regularly as other styles.

Whether hip hop dance was the brain child of some who were simply looking for another form of expression or the intentional genius of creative souls who were looking to put another dance expression into the mix of music is not clear. What is clear is that hip hop music has survived challenge and change and fought its way into the dance scene around the world.

In 2005, the popular television show “So You Think You Can Dance” presented yet another platform for hip hop dance artists to display their talents while competing for fame and fortune against other recognized dance forms such as ballet, tap, jazz and ballroom.

http://www.centralhome.com/hip-hop-dance-history.htm

My reflection paragraph on findings is on this paragraph because it really explains what the history of hip hop dancing and hip hop is about and the meaning of it all. And it is saying some of the dance television shows and stuff like that.

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Who actually thought of hip hop dancing?,What is the purpose for hip hop dancing?

In the mid 20's

Earl Tucker ("Snake Hips") was a performer at the Cotton Club during the days of Duke Ellington. His style of dance is defintly related that of waving that you see young Hip Hop dancers still doing today. and he also had similar floats and back slides that he used in his act as well.

IN JAMAICA THE 1940'S THOMAS WONG BETTER KNOWN AS "TOM THE GREAT" SEBASTIAN

BEGAN USING A BOOMING SOUND SYSTEM AND AMERICAN RECORDS TO STEEL CROWDS FROM LOCAL BANDS.

THIS IS A SECTION OF A PARAGRAPH TAKEN FROM: "The evolution of rap music in the United States by Henry A. Rhodes", WITH REFERENCES TO: Steven Haver in his book, "Hip Hop; the Illustrated History of Break Dancing, Rap Music and Graffiti,"

In 1959 Parks Commissioner Robert Moses began building an expressway through the heart of the Bronx. As a result, the middle class Italian, German, Irish, and Jewish neighborhoods disappeared overnight. In addition, businesses and factories relocated and left this borough. These exiting middle classes and businesses were replaced by poor black and Hispanic families. Accompanying these poor people were crime, drug addiction, and unemployment.

http://www.hiphopcity.com/history/evolutionofrap.htm

http://www.mrwiggles.biz/hip_hop_timeline.htm

These paragraph are talking about who or what created or thought of hip hop dancing and what is the purpose for hip hop dancing. It also tells what countries and who started doing hip hop dancing.

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What is Hip-Hop Dancing?

Hip hop dancing is an urban ethnic dance form that has gained popularity in recent days. It is more common than the break dance of modern days. Hip hop dancing marked its beginning as part of the hip hop culture in the early 1900's, when the youth in and around Bronx, New York started dancing on the streets.

Hip hop dancing is an ideal way to express one's creativeness. It features self impressions and the dances come from the soul. The dancing represents body movements that go with the beat and rhythm of hip hop music. There is breaking, popping, locking, and free styling in hip hop dances. The jumps, breakages, and rotations in the movements are combined in such a way that the dance style becomes an informal and explosive one.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Hip-Hop-Dancing&id=407540

This Paragraph is telling the definition of Hip-Hop Dancing and what it is and really is about. And it is telling what kind of music it can also go with. Of course hip hop, reggae, R'n'B and much more.

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More than 30 years old, hip-hop dance became widely known after the first professional breaking, locking, and popping crews formed in the 1970s. The most influential groups are the The Lockers, the Rock Steady Crew, and the Electric Boogaloos who are responsible for the spread of locking, breaking, and popping respectively. Parallel with the evolution of hip-hop music, hip-hop dancing evolved from breaking and the funk styles into different forms: moves such as the "running man" and the "cabbage patch" hit the mainstream and became fad dances. The dance industry in particular responded with studio/commercial hip-hop, sometimes called new style or L.A. style, and jazz funk. These styles were developed by technically trained dancers who wanted to create choreography for hip-hop music from the hip-hop dances they saw being performed on the street. Because of this development, hip-hop dance is now practiced at both studios and outside spaces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop_dance

This paragraph is talking and explaining "How Hip-Hop Dancing was created?". It also says when it actually started and what basically it is. It is mostly breakdancing.