Kadeezia Small DAN 200-01 Professor Lohman 04 November 2014 Correlation of Jazz and Hip Hop As our culture evolves from century to century and many things begin to be passed down from generation to generation our creations continue to expand and transform. There are a variety of dances that transitions into the next dance but is called something different. Similarly to jazz dancing and hip-hop. Jazz dancing originally came from Africa where many African Americans experiencing slavery expressed their feelings through hand clapping, stomping feet, and drumming of songs. In the 1830’s blacks being to be portrayed in minstrel shows that demonstrated a lot of foot work with their certain songs. Dances like the cakewalk, Charleston, jitterbug, …show more content…
In the early 1970s, the unnamed culture known today as "hip-hop" was forming in New York City's ghettos. Each element in this culture had its own history and terminology contributing to the development of a cultural movement. The common pulse which gave life to all these elements is rhythm, clearly demonstrated by the beats the DJ selected, the dancers' movements, the MCs' rhyme patterns and the writer's name or message painted in a flowing, stylized fashion. The culture was identified in the early 1980s when DJ Afrika Bambaataa named the dynamic urban movement "hip-hop." The words, "hip-hop," were originally used by MCs as part of a scat style of rhyming” (Pabon, 1999). Hip hop dance had become the new jazz. Many of their moves have been inspired by the popularity of jazz and was basically motivated to be similar to jazz dance but with more technical advanced moves. Hip- hop has managed to take over the relevance of jazz in this century. As according to Mr. Alder, “To borrow a term from DJ Shadow, jazz and hip-hop are Omni-genres, held together more by musical and cultural philosophies than by any limiting parameters of "style." While hip-hop has devolved time and again into disposable pop, it has never lost its vitality as an underground, alternative art form. This is the aspect of hip-hop that jazz musicians are responding to; they're encountering hip-hop on creative rather than commercial terms. And they're refuting the popular view that today's jazzers are stuck in the '50s and '60s” (Alder, 2005). Jazz music and jazz dance was the start of a creation called hip hop but now jazz has been put on a back burner. Throughout the launching of hip hop dance or hip hop in general many people became found of it especially the African American culture because at the time