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DANCE

              
                     
 

Dance - 2 sessions - Group Presentation October 12
How is dance "central" to hip hop culture? How is it marginalized? What kinds of dances do hedz do? How have hip hop dances changed over time? What are the sources of dance in hip hop? A consideration of capoiera and early African American dance forms.

       
                         
   

Unit Assignments

                
                         
      view: "The Frreshest Kids: A History of the B-Boy" (2002) October 2 1-134 7pm          
                         
      read: "The Black Beat Made Visible" by Thomas DeFrantz        
                         
      read: "Dance in Hip Hop Culture" by Katrina Hazzard-Donald in That's The Joint pp 505-517.        
                         
      view: "Breaking" by Sally Banes in That's the Joint pp 13-20        
                         
      view: Everybody Dance Now! (PBS Documentary) PART ONE        
                         
      view: Everybody Dance Now! (PBS Documentary) PART TWO        
                 
      view: Everybody Dance Now! (PBS Documentary) PART THREE