Valuing Tap Dance
Tap dancing is a dance form where one would wear a shoe with hard metal soles and strike the floor to create a rhythm. However, there is more to tap dancing than just striking the floor, because anyone can strike their foot on a hard surface to create a noise, but it takes someone who is truly passionate and dedicated to learning and performing Tap dancing to be considered a member of the tap dance community. Also, in the tap community there are specific rules that one would need to follow, to understand, and to execute this dance form. With this being said tap dancing can be considered a Discourse. In Linguist James Paul Gee’s article “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction” from The Journal of Education, he introduces his readers
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Valuing is knowing what social goods are relevant, good, and valuable. For example, tap dancers tap for fun not for money and social standings or social goods. Therefore, if you do not value the routes of tap dancing or the reasons why you are tap dancing the way you are then this experience will not bring you the laughter, enjoyment and fun it is supposed to. Knowing what is valuable in tap dancing also requires one to know what is believed about tap dancing. The believing building task helps one understand what is known/believed, or knowledge of this discourse. For starters, It is believed that this form of dance has been around and valued in the United States since the 1800s and it has even “evolved alongside the American music... known as jazz” (Suzanne). Tap dancing is the original form a street dancing. In the early 1900s “Tap dancers would gather on city street corners to trade steps and challenge one another” (Suzanne) as a form of entertainment. Tap was one of those communities that if you were beginning then you would go to one corner to dance with other beginner tap dancers. And When you thought you were ready, you could move to another corner and tap with other experienced dancers (Suzanne). However, tap once was a popular form of street dance anyone could do, it is now believe that tap dancing is being reborn/ revived thanks to the Dancers who help shape and mold this Discourse into what it is
Valuing is knowing what social goods are relevant, good, and valuable. For example, tap dancers tap for fun not for money and social standings or social goods. Therefore, if you do not value the routes of tap dancing or the reasons why you are tap dancing the way you are then this experience will not bring you the laughter, enjoyment and fun it is supposed to. Knowing what is valuable in tap dancing also requires one to know what is believed about tap dancing. The believing building task helps one understand what is known/believed, or knowledge of this discourse. For starters, It is believed that this form of dance has been around and valued in the United States since the 1800s and it has even “evolved alongside the American music... known as jazz” (Suzanne). Tap dancing is the original form a street dancing. In the early 1900s “Tap dancers would gather on city street corners to trade steps and challenge one another” (Suzanne) as a form of entertainment. Tap was one of those communities that if you were beginning then you would go to one corner to dance with other beginner tap dancers. And When you thought you were ready, you could move to another corner and tap with other experienced dancers (Suzanne). However, tap once was a popular form of street dance anyone could do, it is now believe that tap dancing is being reborn/ revived thanks to the Dancers who help shape and mold this Discourse into what it is