...MUS360 TR 4PM Research Paper The genre of music called “Hip Hop,” originated back in the 1960’s with the help of a Jamaican native and Dj, named Kool Hurc aka, Clive Cambell. Since the evolution of hip hop, the style of music has become one of the main branches of an artistic culture that consists of b-boying (break dancing), graffiti, and MC-ing. All of which have tremendously influenced many aspiring artists, their physical images, the ever-changing sound of hip hop, and other elements that relate to the hip hop culture. A lot of people claim that hip hop and rap can only be about violence, aggression, sex, and money in order to sell or be popular. Another view on hip hop and rap is that it’s too violent, and inappropriate to audiences. That it’s not even music but just a bunch of crap, when in reality, it’s like poetry. The lyrics that artists write come from personal experiences, and perceptions of what they see in the world they live in. Hip hop and rap is more than just music. One of the primary sources I found is a review/article published in “The New York Times” called “The Uncluttered Hip-hop of De La Soul”, written by Peter Watrous, in which Watrous critiques the performance and the group De La Soul at a show. This review of Del La Soul is relevant to the history of hip hop course because it makes a point in which gives an argument for positive recognition of not only De La Soul, but other hip hop groups with similar style of music. These groups don’t write about...
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...When Hip-Hop first emerged in the late 1970s it was far from the thriving genre we know today. It’s origins stem into some of the poorest areas of New York and most prolifically the Bronx’s. The cultural art form was developed by mostly African American and Latino Teenagers as a musical outlet from the turmoil and hardship of their daily lives. The art form first heavily relied on having a prolific DJ to match the rapper often referred to as MC’s, focusing on the two to quickly connect and be in sync with each other was crucial. The most notable of these “founding fathers” of the art form that developed it into what it is today, Grand Master Flash and the Furious 5 who used revolutionary techniques of mixing beats and other songs together...
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...Cultural Appropriation in Hip-Hop Hip-Hop is more than a musical genre. It is a transcending culture with its own rules and context. It’s a lifestyle that has reached beyond the inner-cities of the United States, and today, its power influences the entire world. Its message is unfiltered, at times angry, controversial, misunderstood, inspiring, and thought-provoking, and in many ways, hip-hop is the deafening voice of the minority. To many people who follow hip-hop almost religiously, the Mecca of hip-hop is the Bronx, New York City. The phenomenon started In 1975 when a local Jamaican immigrant and DJ named Kool Herc burst on to the scene with a new style of music in which he employed break-beats over samples of James Brown records. According to the writers of Old School Hip Hop.com “Kool Herc is the father of [the] underground sound from New York that found its way to becoming a worldwide phenomenon” (n.p). However, many other hip-hop historians credit James Brown much more than Herc, and even Kool Herc himself is quoted in a New Black Magazine. Com article crediting Brown with the words, “if it weren’t for James Brown, there would be no such thing as hip-hop” (n.p.) In short, if the Bronx is the Mecca of hip-hop, then James Brown is Allah, and DJ Kool Herc is the Prophet Mohammed. In the early years, hip-hop’s first emcees were DJ’s. It was their job to entertain the crowd, keep the party alive, and introduce the records that they were playing. Kool Herc was the first...
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...Music 407 23 June 2014 Hip-Hop Music This research paper will be discussing the origins and development of hip-hop music, some of the characteristics that define hip-hop as a musical genre, and the social significance of hip-hop from its creation up until current day. The purpose of this paper is to inform and enhance the understanding of hip-hop music, drawing connections between musical stylistic origins and social influence throughout history on hip-hop music to create an unbiased, accurate account of how hip-hop music came to be what it is today. The genre of hip-hop music formed in the 1970s amongst African American Groups in urban New York City, during a time when “block parties” and it’s associated music started to become extremely popular. Credited with founding hip-hop music, DJ Kool Herc, an immigrant from Jamaica, started to extend the percussive breaks in popular funk and soul music (Dyson). This new sound became so popular that DJs needed to start using two turntables to lengthen percussive breaks, effectively creating an entire new sound and new genre of music (Bekman). Hip-hop music is characterized by four main elements: rapping, scratching (DJing), break dancing, and graffiti (Chang). Because music is dynamic and constantly changing, hip-hop started to develop sub-genres within hip-hop, such as southern trap music or west coast gangsta rap. Hip-hop music in different regions started to develop their own unique style of hip-hop, and although all of these...
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...What exactly is hip hop? When reading an article about hip hop written by James McBride, he informs us how hip hop has the purpose of sending us a message. He expresses his feelings towards hip hop, and explains the influence it has worldwide, Agreeing with James’ claim, hip hop sends a message through the generations, outbreak, and history. Throughout the generations hip hop keeps sending a message to teens. Hip hop started in people’s teen years and teens were most influenced by this outrage. Their style, and actions are all influenced by hip hop. Even though people nowadays have a different mindset of what hip hop actually is, it still has and stays having a huge affect on teens now. Hip hop sends a message through its outrage it had back in the day. The way it caused people to be out in the streets, making beats. Also it had an influence on DJ’s , as said in the article a DJ at a club used turntable and mixed two beats together causing the crowd to go mad wild. During the 1980’s it started to become a more of an impact and had a huge outbreak. The influence of hip hop has some history to its beginning. It started in the Bronx and people like Biggie Smalls became a huge inspiration to the people. It was an “overwhelming force” said McBride in his article. There had not been such a huge outbreak since swing jazz in 1930’s. The history was whta started this huge influence. Through the generations, outbreak, and history hip hop has had it does have an influence on...
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...IS HIP HOP DEAD? Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………………………..2 1.FOOTSTEPS/ BRIEF HISTORY ……………………………………………………….3 2.THE HIP HOP GAME/ INDUSTRY ………………………………………………….7 3. UNDERGROUND ………………………………………………………………………..10 5. SAMPLING …………………………………………………………………………………11 6. CREATIVITY IN THE TWO WORLDS ……………………………………………..13 7.SALVATION …………………………………………………………………………………16 CONCLUSION …………………………………………………………………………………17 BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION The phrase “Hip-Hop Is Dead” can be found everywhere around hip hop community discussions during the last years. Rapper “Nas” titled his eighth album in 2006 with this statement, and has caused a controversy among rap artists and listeners all over the world. But comparing today`s hip hop music with the roots of hip hop can we really claim that hip-hop is really dead? If so, what are the facts that lead in the death of hip hop? What does its demise mean for the average fan? How to bring it back? Does it mean the genre will go down in irrelevance like what happened in disco music? All these questions will be investigated during this paper, and to understand this complicate statement itself, we should figure out what the statement really means. Maybe it is the fact that most of the genre’s songs and music videos look exactly the same. Maybe it’s the mainstream hip-hop game’s emphasis in ridiculously shinning jewelry, the sexism and the focus on money and women. Better yet, according to Mickey Hess, “hip-hop’s...
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...Religion and Hip Hop Culture Religious Studies 157/311 Fall 2013 Tuesday & Thursday 10:50am-12:05pm Location: Duncan Lecture Hall 1055 * Important: Pay attention to the requirements listed for each of the course levels. The requirements for 311 level students are in italics (this includes extra readings). Also, NO Photos are to be taken. Cameras and cell phones must be stowed away during class. Instructors: Anthony B. Pinn Bernard “Bun B” Freeman Email: pinn@rice.edu Email: Bernard.j.freeman@rice.edu Office: Humanities 234 Office Phone: 713.348.2710 Office Hours: By Appointment Course Outreach Advisor: Anzel Jennings Teaching Assistants: Office: Humanities 215 or Pavilion (ask your TA for the location) 157 Level: * Jessica Davenport, jbd3@rice.edu, Office hours: Fridays, 9:00am-12:00pm * David Kline, david.a.kline@rice.edu, Office hours: Wednesdays, 1:00pm-4:00pm * Cleve Tinsley, cvt1@rice.edu, Office hours: Fridays, 9:00am-12:00pm * Aundrea Matthews, alm2@rice.edu, Office hours: Wednesdays, 10:30am-1:30pm 311 Level: * Jonathan Chism, chism@rice.edu, Office hours: Thursdays, 1:00pm-4:00pm * Darrius Hills, darrius.d.hills@rice.edu, Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1:00pm-4:00pm * Jason Jeffries, joj1@rice.edu, Office Hours: Wednesdays, 9:00pm-12:00pm Course Description: Understanding religion as the “Quest for Complex Subjectivity” or more simply the effort to make life meaningful in complex...
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...folklorico and the american lyrical hip hop are both dance styles that have a large branch of either a set of movements or regions ,where a specific type of style evolved from . folklorico is a folk dance from mexico which originally originated from the mexicans and europeans which the blood lines crossed over . folklorico isn’t just a dance style it is also considered to also be a culture or tradition to most people . The stems of folklorico comes from ancient people and crossing of foreign blood even of their cultures and traditions . folklorico is composed of different varieties of steps from other regions of Mexico, the movements also have a ballet characteristic with its pointed toes and its sharp movement...
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...Describe in detail the element of hip-hop featured in the reading (for exp. DJing, MCing, Rap, Style, BBoying, and or Graffiti) The element of Hip-hop featured in the reading deals with Rap; how Hip-hop changed to just rap the authenticity of the word Nigga. Reading talked about how Nigger got changed over time, with bad pronunciation and slang overtime. 1987 Hip-hop derived rap with deals with MCing where it’s known that the MC’s the “Rappers” are recognized in using to describe themselves or talk to other African American. 2. Name one person/place/thing featured in the reading. Explain why he/she/it is mentioned. Leon R. Harris mentioned in the reading talked or gave definition of the word “Nigga” where it originated from, the south; pronunciation of nigger, all the other ways of saying the same thing. 3. Evaluate the importance of the element to the history of hip-hop. This chapter important gives the history, and explanation of the derived word Nigga, mostly to tell others that it was a word given to anyone that was Non Anglo-Saxon, Nigga not just to the African Americans, but to all that didn’t meet up to the criteria, of a certain race. The Chapter discussed the negative connotation given each example with the work “nigga” by vibes of such a derogatory manner. 4. Relate the person/place/or thing to hip-hop today. Discuss his/her/its relevance or irrelevance today. I believe that In the history of Hip-hop we see change in the music through...
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...movement. For the music genre, see Hip hop music. For other uses, see Hip hop (disambiguation). Graffiti of "hip hop" in Eugene, Oregon Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic subculture that originated in African-American and Hispanic-American communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx.[1][2][3] DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, B-boying and graffiti writing.[4][5][6][7] [8] Since its emergence in the South Bronx, hip hop culture has spread to both urban and suburban communities throughout the world.[9] Hip hop music first emerged with disc jockeys creating rhythmic beats by looping breaks (small portions of songs emphasizing a percussive pattern) on two turntables, more commonly referred to as sampling. This was later accompanied by "rap", a rhythmic style of chanting or poetry presented in 16 bar measures or time frames, and beatboxing, a vocal technique mainly used to imitate percussive elements of the music and various technical effects of hip hop DJ's. An original form of dancing and particular styles of dress arose among fans of this new music. These elements experienced considerable refinement and development over the course of the history of the culture. The relationship between graffiti and hip hop culture arises from the appearance of new and increasingly elaborate and pervasive forms of the practice in areas where other elements of hip hop were evolving as art forms, with a...
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...Hip-hop is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music. Stylized rhythmic music is music where the rhythm is altered to suit the genre. The culture of hip-hop evolved in the 1970’s and was a movement consisting of streetwise ingenuity. There are four elements of hip-hop; these include rapping, disc jockey (DJ), break dancing and graffiti writing/art. More specifically, rap can incorporate synthesizers (an electronic musical instrument), drum machines and live bands. Some subgenres of rap include alternative, gangsta, political, East Coast, West Coast, crunk and hyphy. The hip-hop movement originated in the 1970’s in South Bronx, New York. African American teenagers living in the South Bronx and Harlem could not afford admission...
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...“Walk This Way” to “The Show Goes On”: The Progression of Rap Compared to other genres of music, rap is considered to be pretty new. Rap, or hip-hop, is constantly evolving, as do other types of music. Rap is simply described as, “talking in rhyme to the rhythm of a beat” (Hip Hop). When rap was getting started, it only consisted of DJs mixing some beats together along with beat boxing and sampling other songs. As the years went on, people decided to rap over the beats and create a perfect rap song. Some rappers are lyrical geniuses, while others make music purely for a good party song. The radio does not do a good job of playing a variety of rap, now a days mainstream rap that is only good for dancing is being played on the radio. Mainstream rap, to some, would not be considered good music purely because the lyrics are extremely basic. Artists like Run-DMC first started the phenomena, Tupac and Biggie Smalls made rap extremely popular, and present day rappers like Lupe Fiasco keep advancing the music. Run-DMC was not the first rapper to start, but he is a big reason why rap is so popular today. Run-DMC was a hip-hop group located in Queens, New York, and is widely known to be the most influential acts in the history of the hip-hop culture. They were the first group in the genre to have a gold album, and to be nominated to the Grammy Awards. In 1982, Run-DMC released “Sucker MCs” which was a huge hit. Allison Smith illustrates, “This blast of rhythmic minimalism...
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...ip hop (stylized as Hip-Hop) is a broad conglomerate of artistic forms that originated within a marginalized subculture in the South Bronx and quickly spread through other parts of New York City such as Harlem among African American and Latino American youth during the late 1970s.[2][3][4][5] It is characterized by four distinct elements, all of which represent the different manifestations of the culture: rap music (oral), turntablism or "DJing" (aural), breaking (physical) and graffiti art (visual). Even while it continues in contemporary history to develop globally in a flourishing myriad of diverse styles, these foundational elements provide stability and coherence to the culture.[2] The term is frequently used mistakenly to refer in a confining fashion to the mere practice of rap music.[citation needed] The origin of the hip hop subculture stems from the block parties of the Ghetto Brothers, when they plugged the amps for their instruments and speakers into the lampposts on 163rd Street and Prospect Avenue and used music to breakdown racial barriers, and from DJ Kool Herc at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, where Herc mixed samples of existing records with his own shouts to the crowd and dancers. Kool Herc is credited as the "father" of hip hop. DJ Afrika Bambaataa of the hip hop collective Zulu Nation outlined the pillars of hip hop culture, to which he coined the terms: MCing or "Emceein", DJing or "Deejayin", B-boying and graffiti writing or "Aerosol Writin".[6][7][8][9][10] ...
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...Hip Hop lays the foundation to an underrepresented culture. Hip Hop was created in the early 1970s by black and latino youth living in the economically depressed community. It incorporates so many elements which have given and allowed people to finally find a platform where they can speak freely upon the unjustified acts that their people have tolerated throughout the years. It exposes the public to racism, gang violence, drug abuse in their neighborhood. Also it is a way where many people can express and be represented in the larger public sphere, and seek proper validation of the black male, female voice to improve the black community. Hip hop has turned into a global phenomenon. Yet their are so many negative factors that have destructively...
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...Levi Massine 1/31/14 English 10 Hip Hop Music And Culture Although rap music is stereotyped as being violent and a bad influence, it may surprise you that the album The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem, was one of the fastest selling albums ever. It dropped in 2000 and sold 1.76 million albums in the first week. Rap , also called hip hop ( a term coined by Keith the Cowboy) is defined as not only being a type of music but also as being a culture or a way of life. As music its defined as talking in rhyme to the rhythm of the beat. As a culture hip hop is defined as “ A culture, a way of life for a society of people who identify, love, and cherish rap, breakdancing, DJing, and graffiti(The History of Rap, 1). Rappers are also called MC’s, which stands for master of ceremonies. The are four elements to rap music, rapping, Djing/scratching, sampling, and beatboxing. The last three more pertain to the beats and background music. Rap is very important to many people not only is it their way of life, but it is also one of their emotional outlets. Hip hop started to rise in popularity in the late 1960’s in the Bronx of New York. It was said to be started in clubs and at block parties when Dj’s started to break down and loop percussion breaks of popular disco songs, but they also used funk and souls songs. At this time rappers were predominantly African Americans and Puerto Ricans. One of the first Dj’s was Dj Kool Herc. Where he performed is sometimes called the birth place of...
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