Hip Hop Sociology

Hip hop comprises of music, dancing, art, poetry, language and style or as it’s called now of days Swag. Its creators/ entrepreneurs were from the inner-city hard-not society: frustrated young people who felt subjugated by the system, disqualified from conventional culture, and frantic with emotions waiting to be express. These cultural entrepreneurs did a lot of illegal, condemned, or otherwise disapproved of the music industry in the beginning. In modern time hip hop is now a global multi-billion dollar industry. Basically the hip hoppers utilized there environment to make there music. Hip Hop is a broad business of artistic forms that originated within a relegated subculture in the South Bronx and rapidly spread through other parts of New York City such as Harlem among African American and other Black youth during the 1970s.
Hip hop is a blend of many genres and cultures, they turned it into something fresh, exciting and unlike any think anyone had seen. As with any maturing culture, hip hop has spawned its own theory. This theory is based around the four elements of hip hop:
Deejaying / Disc Jockey , Emceeing ,
Breaking ,Graffiti art. I feel as if that’s why it exploded like it did. Popular tracks were transformed …show more content…
Breaking was originated in South Bronx of New York City in the mid 1970's. Breakdance is a type of dance that is done by people who are part of the hip hop culture. Breaking is a high-energy acrobatic dance, mixture of complex footwork, spins, kicks and 'freezes' - holding a position balanced on hands, head or shoulders. Kung Fu and the African-Brazilian martial art referred to as Capoeira where major influences on the breaking culture. Originally gangs used breakdancing as a method to battle over territory without physically fist-fighting or using weapons. Eventually it lead to the” heart and soul” of breaking which is the dance battle, where individuals or crews compete for dance