Rap Hip HopRhyming on top of repetitive beats goes back to the dawn of human history, but Raps year zero is commonly regarded as 1979, when the Sugarhill Gang released Rappers Delight, which became a huge Hit. Hip hop more properly denotes the entire subculture into which Rap fits, sincerapping is not a required component of HipHop songs. The major stylistic elements ofHip Hop music consists of MCing and rapping lyrics, DJing and scratching records, dancing in styles like breakdance and street dance, sampling tracks, beat-boxing, and graffiti art.Hip hop music in its infancy was an outlet and a voice for the disenfranchised youth of low-economic areas, reflecting the social, economic and political realities.It started as a DJ based phenomenon on the streets of the 1970s run down New York when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City, particularly among African American and Latino youth residing in the Bronx. In theseblock parties, DJs played popular genres of music, especially funk and soul music and began isolating the percussion breaksof popular songs. This technique was thencommon in Jamaican dub music. Becausethe percussive breaks in funk, soul and disco records were generally short, DJ Kool Herc and others began using two turntables to extend the breaks.Turntable techniques for Rap music, such as scratching and mixing and matching beats, eventually developed along with thebreaks, creating a base that could be rapped over, which is also taken from Jamaican dub music. Rap songs soon spread to be a nationwide, and later, a worldwide culture that put the MC, the Rapper, in front.The mid 1980s to early 1990s are considered Hip Hops Golden Era and arecharacterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence with strong themes of Afro-centricity and political militancy, with a strong jazz influence. By the end of the 20th century Hip Hop was perhaps the most influential music genre, changing the face of Pop culture forever, and spawning subsequent changes to R&B, dance music & Jazz.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:23:08 +0000
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