History and emergence of Hip Hop in Korea
Korea is a vibrant environment for contemporary music, and produces a wide array of styles. The country has produced internationally prominent composers and singers including Psy in which one of his music became a global phenomenon. Moreover, a new genre called Kpop also emerged during the 1990 's up to present. Today, The melodies of Korean music are quite similar to the mood of early 2000 's rhythm and blues music from America. Reflections of African American music are quite prominent due to Korea 's western influence and the United State 's heavy influence of Negro spirituals deriving in the 1800s during slavery of which you still see in music today. Story telling is very important in every culture and as Korea has had it 's own hardships it is easy to see how musicians took their own hardships applied them to influences from African Americans.
South Korea is one of the many countries that has experienced a rise in the popularity of hip hop in the last several years. The origins of hip hop in South Korea date back to the early 1990s when was still considered an underground phenomenon. About twenty years later, hip hop has become just as popular as K-Pop.
Hip hop in American itself thrived through the frustration of the government and it’s treatment of African Americans. It was a way to speak your mind freely. It was seen as a sociopolitical to certain events such as the 90s riots in Los Angeles which was a response to the
Hip hop, the creation of electronic sound and enticing language is a style born from the African American and Hispanic cultures. It formed in New York City from block parties and the participation of the youth culture. This style of music began as a minimal change in rhythm to a globally popular culture consisting of graffiti art, dancing, and music. Hip hop was not only a type of tasteful music, but it also became a benchmark in history. When this style of music was created, it served as an outlet for those who did not have a voice, particularly the minority groups. These groups were given rights that they deserved just like everyone else. In the 1970’s is when hip hop began to spread, creating not just
According to a paper by David Galenson titled The Globalization of Advanced Art in the Twentieth Century, “Globalization involves not only the movement of goods, but also the movement of people and ideas. For advanced art, a central element of globalization has been the spread of important innovations – the geographic diffusion of new techniques and styles.” So, according to Galenson, the globalization of hip hop is not just about the music or the style being celebrated wirldwide, but also the sharing of new ideas and skills.
Hip-Hop as well as many other artistic cultural forms we practice today can be related back to African culture and various traditions. Author of The Roots and Stylistic Foundations of the Rap Music and Tradition, Cheryl Keyes, discuss’ the spirit, style, tradition, emotions, culture and the delivery of music. Keyes says that many of these practices can be traced back to the West Afrikan Bardic Tradition in particular. When asking many old-school, and culturally involved hip-hop artists about the roots and origins of rap/hip-hop music many of them will refer to Africa.
Hip-hop culture began to develop in the south Bronx area of New York City during the 1970s. It had a significant influence in the music industry. Hip-hop music generally includes rapping, but other elements such as sampling and beatboxing also play important roles. Rapping, as a key part in the hip-hop music, takes different forms, which including signifying, dozen, toast and jazz poetry. Initially, hip-hop music was a voice of people living in low-income areas, reflecting social, economic and political phenomenon in their life [1]. As time moves on, hip-hop music reached its “golden age”, where it became a mainstream music, featuring diversity, quality, innovation and influence [2]. Gangsta rap, one of the most significant innovations in
The hip hop or rap music is a style of popular music originated in the late 1970s in the South Bronx during a time characterized by political traditionalism and economic collapse. It started being played in gathering in public parks or individual homes. It was first used by the youngest members of the inner city black and Latino communities in New York. This kind of music, provided one of the few spaces where excluded minority youth could adopt and secure a public voice, and also a way in which members of these communities could express their worries and speak without restrictions.
Most cultures started from small gatherings that had a great impact on many people through the unique expressive techniques. Hip-Hop is one of the greatest cultural movements that have emerged from the dilapidated South Bronx, New York in the early 1970’s. This subculture developed into a global sensation impacting the formation of youth culture around the world. The South Bronx was a whirlpool of political, social, and economic disruption in the years leading up to the birth of Hip-Hop. Relief from the poverty, oppression, drug, and crime was found in in hip hop.
Hip hop music has delivered messages of freedom of expression, unity, peace, and protest against social injustices, for the past 30 years. But exactly when and where did it begin, and what impact has it had on our society? The hip hop beats created by DJs in the 70s actually sparked what is now known as hip hop culture. Hip hop culture originally included rapping, break dancing, graffiti, beat boxing, and looping and scratching, and has now includes urban clothing and cars, speech patterns and slang, and movement styles. In the early 70s, in New York 's South Bronx, the music genre of hip hop was born. The man behind its birth was Clive Campbell, aka DJ Kool Herc, who was from Kingston, Jamaica. DJ Kool Herc began to use two turntables to bring out the parts of the song that people liked best, and he rapped along to encourage break dancing. Before the 1980s, hip hop music was mainly seen within the United States. However, during the 1980s, it began its spread and became a part of the popular music scene in many other countries. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 1990s and 2000s. Dr. Dre and Eminem were two of the most successful rappers at that time. Hip hop influences also found their way into pop during this period mainly through the mid-2000s. Rappers such as Kanye West and Jay Z also began to become popular in the mid-2000s. Hip Hop and Rap was mainly created because of the different style of music and beat it gave. Before this genre of music began,
Hip-hop is one of the most popular genres of music in the world today. However, the hip-hop of today’s world is very different from the hip-hop that started it all. Hip-hop has simply evolved to a different type of music than the hip-hop that started it all. Hip-hop started in Brooklyn in 1973 at a block party with DJ Kool Herc, known as the father of hip-hop, mixing the beats. However, hip-hop has changed. There are the advances in technology to help make different sounds for songs. There is the fighting between artists and rappers because of their geographical backgrounds, meaning the areas that they are from. There are many artists making breakthroughs with new styles and different types of lyrics, many of whom set the bar for
Hip Hop music had been around for about twenty years in the United Sates, but it was usually heard at block parties and discos where DJs would loop breakbeats and MCs would add live vocals.
“At heaven's gate, saying please Lord let me in, Or send me back to tell my people to be better men, Cause we are - Misunderstood, Misunderstood, Don't let me be misunderstood, I'm just human (Common)” Hip Hop is not just music, it is a way of life. It is a spiritual connection we share with everything. It is being one hundred percent true, original and organic with oneself. Its the way one acts with others and with oneself. It is self-love, self-knowledge. Hip Hop creates community. It creates positivity. It creates a platform for the community to express the problems they face.
Every types of cultures listen to hip hop because it is a popular genre. Hip hop has grown really big around the different parts of the country. The hip hop culture
Hip-Hop is a cultural movement that emerged from the dilapidated South Bronx, New York in the early 1970’s. The area’s mostly African American and Puerto Rican residents originated this uniquely American musical genre and culture that over the past four decades has developed into a global sensation impacting the formation of youth culture around the world. The South Bronx was a whirlpool of political, social, and economic upheaval in the years leading up to the inception of Hip-Hop. The early part of the 1970’s found many African American and Hispanic communities desperately seeking relief from the poverty, drug, and crime epidemics engulfing the gang dominated neighborhoods. Hip-Hop proved to be successful as both a creative outlet for
Hip-hop was part of my childhood in a small scale. I was never an aficionado of the genre, but have to admit an initial curiosity about the multiplicity of grooves and especially about the messages conveyed by its performers. The vibrantly paced “Straight Outta Compton” isn’t just a film about hip-hop but much more. It competently covers the episodes around the formation of the band N.W.A. in 1986 Compton, California, and all the subsequent happenings that led to its end and division of its members: Ice Cube (his son O'Shea Jackson Jr.), Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), DJ Yella, and MC Ren. The director, F. Gary Gray (“The Negotiator”, “The Italian Job”), counted with Cube and Dre as part of the production crew, guaranteeing
The movement occurred as a direct response to disco, which notoriously had features that juxtaposed those that the minorities in question wanted and were able to emulate at the time; disco was metrosexual and required a lot of money to maintain the hedonistic lifestyle. In contrast, hip hop was hyper-masculine and catered to the people that the movement was for. Hip hop was formed to develop a sense of community among people of color, specifically Latinos and African Americans in a time when they were treated unfairly and made a victim by systematic and institutionalized racism with housing shifts, substandard housing, the formation of gangs, mass incarceration,
“Kpop” is short for Korean pop music, it is a musical genre consisting of electronic, ballad, R&B, hip hop, rock, jazz, and pop music originating in South Korea. Kpop has spread like wildfire across all of Southeast Asia countries such as China, Vietnam, Thailand, etc. Kpop entered the Japanese market at the beginning of the 21st century and immediately became a big hit, as well as the Chinese market. Until today, a large number of teens in the US and in most European countries know of Kpop through the power of the internet. Many Kpop music videos on Youtube exceed by the millionth views. Fun fact, guess what is the most viewed Youtube video ever? A kpop video, Gangnam Style by a Korean rapper PSY