What is Hip-Hop? According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Hip-Hop can be delineated as a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.1 Originating from a disparaged subculture in the South Bronx and eagerly spreading through other sectors of New York City during the 1970’s, Hip-Hop evolved from formerly being a relatively fraudulent style to currently being a commercialized and disseminated music genre among diverse
Music has always been one of the ways that people use to express the connection between their feelings and the outside world with melody, rhythm and sound. There are different genres and many kinds of music from different places and different nationality. Hip hop is a cultural movement that emerged in the 1970s in the United States among Latin Americans, Jamaicans and African American that aimed to protest the social conflicts and violence suffered by the lower classes of urban society. Hip Hop
Hip hop is a genre of music that has significantly grown since last couple of decades. Its increased attractiveness has brought it to the forefront of globalization. Hip hop uses components of other musical genres to create something new in their music. Something like beat, sound and dancing step. After listen to several hip hop and others type of music. I noticed that hip- hop has the same musical tones series as blues and other type of song such has Jazz and Gospel. Also hip-hop had a similar "one-TWO-three-FOUR"
Hip-Hop The music that truly inspires who I am today would have to be hip-hop. The genre itself has been around for generations and many more to come. Let alone of the sheer diversity of the genre. Also, the variations each rapper, emcee, etc. to bring to the genre makes it so much larger than people may think about it. Last, but not least hip-hop has a lot of culture and its only been around since 1979. First, of all the genre hip-hop is truly diverse open to any and of all ethnicities to join
Hip-Hop is a subcultural movement that formed in the early 1970s by African-American, Caribbean and Latino youths. It wasn’t until the late 1980s that it became popular outside of the African-American community and by the 2000s it became the most popular genre of music. However, the subculture has evolved through out the years and the comparison between then and now is growing increasingly big. Hip-Hop in the 80s consisted of music, dance, creativity and artistry. It also allowed people an avenue
Assignment 4 Hip Hop is a genre of music consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. Hip-hop is not only a genre of music its a form of art and culture. It can also be a style and language. Hip Hop is described as accompanying background music but is often a synonym to rap music. In this paper I will show how rap got started and evolved into the culture we know today as Hip Hop. There were many influences of rap music as early as
Hip hop is widely known as a genre of music that started in a New York City borough called the Bronx in the late 1970s, but it is more than just the music. Hip hop is a culture that consists of being a disc jockey which is also known as deejaying or turntabling, breakdancing, MCing or rhyming “rapping”, graffiti, and fashion. Each of these items are key elements in creating hip hop and these key items are part of the hip hop culture. Deejaying was an important factor contributing to hip hop culture
that there 's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that 's really important to us, and music is all we 've really got” – Missy Elliot. Hip-Hop is a cultural movement and popular genre of music that emerged during the early 1970 's by working class Black youths in New York City. The cultural movement has rapidly expanded across different countries and ethnicities over the years, becoming one of the few markers that define a generation. Hip-Hop can be seen as “the fundamental matrix
Rap or Hip Hop is more than just another music genre, it is a movement full of more aspects than one could imagine. The film “The Art of Rap” directed, produced, and hosted by Ice-T, exemplifies the different aspects and explains the importance of Hip Hop while taking a journey interviewing many legendary MC’s, giving the viewer an inside perspective of this music and the art of MC’ing. This film also heavily resonates with the book Rap Music and Street Consciousness. Ice-T interviews many influential
What if someone would make a mash-up of the two music genres, jazz and hip-hop? Jazz music can date to the early 1900’s but there is no specified founder (www.jazzinamerica.org). Hip-hop can also trace back to an approximate start date, but there is not just one creator (Errey 1997). Jazz and hip-hop have many similarities along with their numerous differences. Jazz music and hip-hop music are both genres of music that have long histories and have lots of similarities and differences, too. First