Today's Hip-Hop

by Lori Mortensen

Overview

Get up and dance! Get to know popping and locking and other basic steps, and how this freestyle dance form has evolved since the 1970s. Discover performances and dancers who added their signature style to the hip-hop movement, from DJ Kool Herc to Michael Jackson's Moonwalk to the all-female DM Nation. Learn what it takes to become a hip-hop pro and the choreography that goes into full-scale performances.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543554441
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2019
Series:	Dance Today
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	8 - 14 Years

About the Author

Lori Mortensen is a multi-published children’s author who writes fiction and nonfiction on all sorts of subjects. When she’s not plunking away at the keyboard, she enjoys making cheesy bread rolls, gardening, and hanging out with her family at their home in northern California.

Table of Contents

Hit the floor — Hip-hop rewind — All the right moves — Hip-hop rocks — Show stoppers — Hip-hop fusion — Glossary — Read more — Internet sites — Index.

Interviews

Contemporary look at popular forms of dance. Focus on diversity and contemporary evolution of the dance. Covers basic elements of each dance form with additional content on history and iconic performances and dancers. Written and designed to meet needs and interests of struggling girl readers. Engaging narrative, vibrant photos and illustrations, sidebars, infographics, and fun facts.

Editorial Reviews

05/01/2019

Gr 3–5—In simple overviews, "Dance Today" showcases four of the most popular current dance styles. Each book in this series describes the origin and evolution of its specific style and provides brief biographies of big stars. For instance, Ballet includes Misty Copeland, the world-renowned American ballerina whose power and grace made her a modern icon. Tap Dancing charts the evolution of tap, from classic movie stars like Bill "Bojangles" Robinson to dancer/choreographer Savion Glover. There is some overlap between Hip-Hop and Street Dance, but Mortensen does an adequate job showing their differences, especially in the ways street dance can serve as a form of activism for movements like Black Lives Matter. Each book in the series briefly describes the dedication, athleticism, and training routines of top dance stars and crews. VERDICT Not a necessary purchase, but in communities where dance is particularly popular, these could be a sensation.

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