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    Christian Hip-hop VS Secular Hip-hop Donald Payne COM/170 6/12/12 Faith lbarra Christian Hip-hop VS Secular Hip-hop Hip-hop is a form of popular music that’s comprised mainly of emceeing and deejaying. As hip-hop continues to evolve into a successful enterprise‚ it has emerged into trends‚ such as clothing styles‚ improper dialogue known as slang‚ and an overall general mindset. While the secular industry of hip-hop promotes sex‚ drugs‚ and violence‚ to name a few; the Christian objective

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    Hip-Hop was brought into the U.S by a gathering of Jamaican settlers in the 70’s. One of the Jamaicans‚ Clive Campbell‚ A.K.A Kool Herc started‚ making instrumentals out of two turntables. While another man from the Bronx‚ Theodore Livingstone‚ A.K.A Grand Wizard‚ incidentally found the scratching sound of the turntable. Rap was made as a between social marvel of New York’s poorer segments (Harlem‚ Soho‚ Greenwich Village‚ Bronx‚ Queens‚ and Brooklyn). Rap turned into a developed type of Jamaican

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    Hip-Hop: A New Generation Hip-hop was born out of the Bronx during the 1970s. Artists such as Grandmaster Flash‚ DJ Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaata mixed funk‚ soul and Jamaican "toasting" (chanting over music) to create a type of hip-hop. Since its early formation‚ hip-hop has become one of the world’s biggest-selling musical genres. Its influence on Western society is far reaching and hip-hop is often referred to as a "culture". Hip-Hop has had a notable influence on fashion‚ language‚ art and

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    What is hip-hop? Many believe hip-hop is synonymous for rap music‚ but it goes beyond that. Hip-hop is a form of art and culture‚ style‚ and language‚ and for many‚ a way of life (Fernando‚ 1994). The graffiti you see on bridges‚ the dances you see in the clubs‚ the hardened attitude that the boy who sits behind you in film class has‚ the slang you here kids yell at the park‚ this is hip-hop. In the 1980s the subculture at that time was deejaying‚ emceeing‚ graffiti‚ and break dancing. All played

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    The Effects of Hip Hop Music on Today’s Youth If a person was born anywhere between the 1980’s to the 1990’s‚ he or she is considered a part of the "Hip Hop Generation". Music is a gift that has been given to us‚ but the question is‚ "where is hip hop music going?" Hip-hop is now one of the biggest and fastest growing businesses in the world. It’s creativity in sound‚ and its lyrics have impressed and empowered many of today’s youth. But is hip-hop music taking today’s youths where they need to

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    Arnob Basit Dissertation Has Hip-hop changed the youth in todays society? Throughout the past 30 years‚ there has been much speculation about how negative hip-hop music truly is‚ and how it actually affects the youth. The hip-hop music of recent years has been the foundation of many controversial issues and has been illustrated negatively by the media countless times. Issues such as gun and knife crime which has escalated heavily within younger age groups in the last 15 years‚ especially in the

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    Jalaia Surles Professor Wally Shaw Music Appreciation 2 December 2016 Hip Hop vs Rap When I think of Hip Hop‚ I think of mainly guys beatboxing. Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines using your mouth and voice. Hip Hop artists such as Doug E. Fresh and Vanilla Ice used the beatboxing style of rhyming in a lot of music in the mid 80’s and early 90’s. Another thing that comes to mind is men walking around with boom boxes up close to their

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    which he called Make Believe Ballroom‚ was an instant hit. The term "disc jockey" appeared in print in Variety in 1941.[5] In 1943‚ Jimmy Savile launched the world’s first DJ dance party by playing jazz records in the upstairs function room of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherd’s in Otley‚ England. In 1947‚ he became the first DJ to use twin turntables for continuous play. In 1947‚ the Whiskey à Go-Go nightclub opened in Paris‚ France‚ considered to be the world’s first discothèque‚ or disco (deriving

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    Extended Essay Draft 2 (Influence of West African Music on rhythm behind Rap) Since the beginning of time‚ music has always played an incredibly important role in our day-to-day lives as humans‚ but it has also played a very important role in history and society. Music is able to reflect and mimic feelings and emotions‚ events and ideas‚ and has become a medium for communication. It is it’s own voice‚ speaking for those unheard. As a matter of fact‚ music has had an enormous impact in the 20th century

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    culturally originated music genre stemming from hip hop in the 1970s. Rap music can be defined as rhythmic speaking; almost poetically‚ stemming from Jamaican traditions‚ which included impromptu poetry (Chang‚ 2005) and synthesising‚ which is when DJs speak over the musical rhythms in a poetic form. This hip hop culture then took off‚ with several groups‚ mainly male groups‚ coming together to emphasis the pillars of hip hop; MCing‚ DJing‚ graffiti‚ breakdancing‚ and beatboxing (Starr‚ 2007) The

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