Can you beatbox?
Have you ever seen someone make all sorts of drum (鼓) beats and musical rhythms (节奏) with nothing more than his or her voice? That's called beatboxing! It's a form of vocal percussion (人声打击乐) using only one's mouth, lips, tongue and voice.
Beatboxing is a big part of modern hip hop culture. Besides drum sounds, beatboxing can be used to sing, imitate (模仿) a record player and make sounds like different musical instruments.
Although the modern form of beatboxing got its start in the 1980s, using your voice to imitate percussion sounds has been popular for a long, long time. Historians believe people in India and China developed their own forms of vocal art several thousand years ago.
Beatboxing as we know it today — sometimes called human beatboxing — became popular in the early 1980s. Beatboxing pioneers included Doug E. Fresh, who said he was the first “human beatbox，” Swifty, Buffy and Wise.
Besides their voices and mouths, some beatboxers use their hands and other parts of their bodies to create more different rhythms. The term “beatboxing” came from the fact that early beatboxing tried to imitate the first drum machines, which were called beatboxes at the time.
Today, beatboxing is popular all over the world. Many countries have their own beatboxing organizations that organize national beatboxing competitions. There are also worldwide beatboxing competitions held internationally each year.
The popularity of beatboxing has also led some people to organize large beatboxing ensembles (合奏) in order to set a world record. The new Guinness World Record for the largest human beatbox ensemble is 6,430 people set in Hung Kong, on 26 June 2017!
From：wonderopolis.org
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Beatbox是出现于上世纪八十年代的新兴嘻哈元素，是一种在二十一世纪初兴盛起来而形成的音乐文化。
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1．musical instrument 乐器
2．historian 历史学家
3．pioneer 先行者，先驱
4．rhythm 韵律
5．term 术语
6．worldwide 世界范围的
7．popularity 流行
8．set a record 创造纪录
Section Ⅰ Introduction & Reading and Vocabulary
