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The 20th Century saw a lot of change for music. This wasn’t just for genres such as classical, minimalism etc. but for popular music such as; pop, rock, hip-hop etc. For this essay, I have decided to study the three genres of music; Musicals, Hip-Hop and Aleatoric Music. I have chosen to research Hip-Hop because I like the genre as a whole and I like listening to some of the songs in the genre. So, I think because of this, it would be interesting to find out more about this genre and say some of my opinions on it. I have chosen Musicals because they are very popular and I enjoy watching and listening to the songs. I’ve never really known what makes a musical song different to just any other song so I thought it would be interesting to find …show more content…

There are quite a few theories on where the term hip hop came from, but the most well-known is probably the song ‘Rappers Delight’ by the Sugar Hill Gang. The song, recorded in 1979, uses the lyrics ‘da hip da hop, da hippity da hip hip hop and you don’t stop’. Another theory is that Arika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation used the term hip hop to describe the block parties they were having in the South Bronx in the late 70s …show more content…

Rap is style that incorporates rhythmic and rhyming speech that became the movement’s biggest influence .

Even though hip-hop is quite similar to rap and is usually seen as the same thing, hip-hop is made up of four elements: deejaying (‘turntabling’) – a DJ is someone who plays a mix of ready recorded music either on its own or in the background of the singer/rapper, rapping (‘MCing’), graffiti painting (‘writing’) and B-boying (a type of dance that incorporates hip-hop style and attitude . B-boying is another term for breakdancing, a dance that requires the dancer to pay attention to the rhythm, using a lot of footwork. It also uses acrobatic and, occasionally, airborne moves, with head spins and back spins.

Hip-hop lyrics mainly include a style of allusion , which is an indirect or passing reference to something , and a sense of opportunity and freedom. The style usually uses culture and personalities as subjects. Writing about her research on hip-hop, Sarah Blake writes; ‘In 2010, I knew I wanted to write about hip hop. I love how hip hop is rooted in the present. I love its mixed diction, its humour, how it’s political, how much collaboration is involved… Kanye West’s life using a perspective distinct from his

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Hip-hop is defined as a contemporary style of music that includes rap, a lifestyle marked by baggy clothes, idiomatic speech, and break-dancing.

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1 Hip-Hop is a style of popular music of US black and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing. “Like any style of music, hip hop has roots in other forms, and its evolution was shaped by many different artists, but there’s a case to be made that it came to life precisely on this day in 1973, at a birthday party in the recreation room of an apartment building in the west Bronx, New York City” (History.com Staff). As Hip-Hop is such a broad genre in music, there are many sub-divisions as well. I find my three favorite artist of these sub-divisions to be Biggie Smalls, Future, LL Cool J.

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Like Frederick Douglass states the songs came from a deep and meaningful place and It was the voice of the oppressed (Cruz, 1999). Hip Hop emerged in the 1970’s as an underground movement where it is a musical protest for the politics that was very current in that time, where isolation of minorities was the norm, they needed a way to express they’re oppression but to also educate those in their communities. “ it is well established that music was one of the primary means by which slaves cultivated collective knowledge and solidarity”, music was the bond that brought communities together not just blacks but whites as well (Cruz, 1999) This bond was demonstrated in the 1920's during the Harlem Renaissance era when jazz emerged and Europeans

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