Sound Idea Part 2: Stomp The Yard

Step dance is a from of dance in which the perfomers body is used as an instrument to make elaborate rhythms and sounds through a blend of footsteps, loud meaningful words, and hand claps. Stepping is generally performed in groups. Stepping first originated from the SHouth African laborers who would perform these complex choregraphies in rubber Wellington work boots. You hit you heel, you hit your kneee, and then you hit your hands and it is all very complex, which requires using the whole ody. It was also originated because black university and college students weren’t able to join the fraternities and sororities because of their color and that most of the students at the school were white. As stepping later evolved it has now become an even more popular art form that is engaged throughout the world. Today it is now rooted in many schoolyard competition among fraternities and sororities. These fraternities and sororities use the African American Greek Alphabet to name their group and through this they become better people and learn the basic essentials of life.

African American Greek Alphabet:

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Stepping is an sound form because the noise that is produced is sound. How can you put this aspect of sound to a writing? In good writing pieces there is a certain beat to it and you read the piece in a a certain rhythm. Stepping has rhythm and a beat to it, so this can be applied to a writing piece. A story or piece can have a beat to it and the reader can feel like they are reading something that is flowing properly and moving in a certain rhythm.

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