Making Hip Hop Theatre: Beatbox and Elements

Contents

• On Collaboration and the Voices in this Book
• Our Collaborators
• Why We Wrote This
• Some Introductions
• - Hip hop culture: A brief history
• - Conrad on Hip Hop
• - Katie on Hip Hop
• - Our Collaborators on Hip Hop
• - Conrad on the Battersea Arts Centre (the venue where it all began)
• - The Beatbox Academy: How it Began
• Part One: Getting Started
• - Principles of Hip Hop
• - Warm Ups
• - Beatbox Basics
• - Progressing Technique
• - Equipment
• - Further Resources
• - Ending Sessions
• Part Two: Developing Ideas and Making a Living
• - Principles for Working With…
• - Stimulus and Starting Points
• - Practical tips for Starting a Theatre Career
• Part Three: How We Made It
• - Hitler Wrote 20 Pop Songs…Have You Heard Them?
• - No Milk for the Foxes
• - DenMarked
• - High Rise eState of Mind
• - Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster
• Against Spoken Word!
• Acknowledgements
• Index