Music Born in America-- reading and vocabulary 课件.pptVIP

All You Need to Know About Hip Hop Look at some words about music from the passage. Do you know what they mean? breakdancing; disco; DJ; graffiti; hip hop; improvisation; microphone; percussion; pop; rap; record; reggae; rock; soul; turntable; vocals Part 1 Hip hop is an American cultural movement which started in the 1970s at block parties in New York, especially in a district called the Bronx. There are four main aspects of hip hop: breakdance and graffiti art plus two types of hip hop music—DJ-ing and rapping. Rapping is also known as MC-ing (coming from the term master of ceremonies). The DJs at block parties in the 1970s played a lot of soul music and they noticed that people preferred the percussion breaks in the songs because they were the best parts to dance to. So they started repeating the percussion breaks. This is a technique used by DJs in Jamaica. There were a lot of Jamaicans in New York who brought the idea with them. At first, they played a lot of reggae. . Read Part 1 of the passage and find words which mean: (a). local street: (b). the mic (microphone) controller: (c). when you can only hear the drummer: (d). a typical kind of music from the Caribbean: (e). when you play records for dancers: (f). an island in the Caribbean Sea: (g). fast dancing which can include spinning on your head: (h). paintings on walls, for example: (i). talking to a rhythmic music backing: (j). a combination of rhythm and blues, gospel music and pop: Part 2 What was the big breakthrough? DJ Herc, one of the most popular Jamaican DJs at the time, noticed tha