Hip-hop over the past three decades has greatly developed and spread throughout many countries of the world. It is widely listened to today‚ especially by the youth. Its unique musical style has captivated people of all ages and more importantly‚ races. Hip-hop is a style all its own‚ original in its music‚ clothing‚ and language. Regardless of culture‚ background‚ and native countries‚ hip-hop has made a name for itself among all people. Perhaps one of the biggest ideas concerning the hip-hop phenomenon
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Hip hop music‚ also called hip-hop‚[1][2] rap music‚[2][3][4] or hip-hop music‚[2][5] is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping‚ a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.[2] It developed as part of hip hop culture‚ a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping‚ DJing/scratching‚ break dancing‚ and graffiti writing.[6][7][8] Other elements include sampling (or synthesis)‚ and beatboxing. While often used to refer to rapping
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Jonathon Bidelspach AFA 2000 Unit IV Paper Hip-hop music is known as one of the most popularizing and popular genres in our modern society. Most of hip-hop music is considered vulgar‚ offensive‚ and meaningless‚ which can be easily displayed by hip-hop artists such as Soulja Boy and Lil’ Wayne. However‚ who gets lost in translation is the artist who conveys true meaning in their lyrics and sticks with the original roots of the music. For hip-hop’s short life‚ there has been dramatic change in
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Hip Hop is a category of “music” that has come a long way since it was first fashioned. Born in The Bronx‚ New York is has defined and interpreted countless of times. The text book definition is “a style of popular music of US black and Hispanic origin‚ featuring rap with an electronic backing. Originally produce to tell stories of men and women of the time it has since grown and develop a whole new meaning which is not set in stone. Today‚ hip-hop‚ can be located worldwide due largely to media website
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Hip-Hop Goes Global It has been a quarter of a century since hip-hop first made its mark on the American music scene. Hip-hop has become a popular trend that is echoing around the world. By definition‚ hip-hop refers to a culture that embraces a particular music‚ language‚ attitude‚ and dress fashioned after disadvantaged urban youth. Born out of the ghettos of the South Bronx‚ New York‚ and created by black and Latino youth in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s‚ this music genre closely identified
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Hip-Hop Pioneers The pioneers of hip-hop started to surface around the mid 70’s. The different components to Hip-Hop were Dance‚ DJs‚ and MC’s. Some say it originated in the Bronx‚ NY‚ with DJ’s like GrandMaster Flash who invented different techniques on the mix board. He later joined up with a group of rappers call Furious Five and created hits like "The Roof is on Fire." Another Influential Hip-Hop Artist includes Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels‚ also known as Run and D.M.C. The combination
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Cultural exchange is something that has been happening for centuries. It allows people to learn more and experience other cultures through “mutual understanding‚ equality‚ and respect.” Now there seems to be confusion on where cultural exchange ends and cultural appropriation begins. Cultural appropriation is the “taking [of] intellectual property‚ traditional knowledge‚ cultural expressions‚ or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission.” Instead of educating and spreading knowledge
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Introduction: Hip Hop in History: Past‚ Present‚ and Future Author(s): Derrick P. Alridge and James B. Stewart Source: The Journal of African American History‚ Vol. 90‚ No. 3‚ The History of Hip Hop (Summer‚ 2005)‚ pp. 190-195 Published by: Association for the Study of African-American Life and History‚ Inc. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20063997 Accessed: 27/10/2009 14:22 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at
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A Cultural Artifact Family Albums‚ “ A Cultural Artifact” Family albums have played an important role as navigators of familial ideology and possessions of familial memory. Most family photograph albums contain a great variety of items‚ both identified and unidentified held together by this collective identity with the family. When family albums are put together we are reminded of our family history and possess sentimental ties within the family. Viewing photographs of deceased loved ones
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Hip hop is a cultural movement that began its journey during the early 1970s‚ among African American young children’s residing in the South Bronx in New York City. Afterwards‚ became popular outside of the African American community in the late 1980s and by the 2010s it became the most listened-to musical genre in the entire world. Furthermore‚ it consists of four fundamental elements‚ which represent the different manifestations of the culture: rap‚ turntablism‚ b-boying‚ and lastly graffiti art
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