Hip hop dance

Many regard hip hop as offensive noise but many of the music’s elements have roots deep in American history and helped shape the country as we know it today. It’s earliest roots date back to the rhythmic music of tribal Africa. Much of the music consisted of drum beats and rhythmic chanting accompanied by melodic vocals and other minor instruments, such as, shakers, string instruments, and flutes. Today’s rap music is also centralized around heavy beats and the same rhythmic chanting, which we…

The music genre of Hip-hop and its unusual sound is a unique cultural artifact, which is defined as an item that, when found, reveals valuable information about the society that made or used it. The different sound of music that hip-hop brings is: an infusion between rock and roll, and rhythm and blues, so it has been said. What makes hip-hop a cultural artifact is its influence on fashion, other genres of music, sports, entertainment, an even people. Hip-hop is more than just a form of music it…

Hip-hop is a genre of music associated with rap and others that conveys more a serious or upbeat tone about real life situations or personas. Hip-hop shows portray feeling and emotions towards a way of life or people and can be taken just as a song to dance to while also another person has taken it as a certain message to them or their feelings and beliefs. Myself, I grew up listening to Biggie Smalls, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre in the back of my dad's car. But as just a child I didn't think…

argues about / describes / criticizes a nightmare that made him re-evaluate his perceptions of hip-hop he said here about the first paragraph where the nightmare gets deeper,because before he know it he heard the the pitter-patter of the little feet, their offspring,cascading through his living living room,cascading through his life,drowning him with the sound of his hypocrisy. 2)About the hip hop Mcbride said music seemingly without melody, sensibility,instruments,verse,or harmony,music…

Is Lyricism In Hip Hop A Lost Art Form? It is no surprise that hip hop ten years ago sounds much more different than it does now. Even a person who is unfamiliar with hip hop can distinguish a rap song from the 90’s and one in 2015. Lyrics, production, and subject matter strays away from its “gangster” persona, and now associates with a personal story modern rappers are trying to tell. Ask a person who has grown up in the 90’s hip hop era about their thoughts on todays hip hop, and expect a…

Before the song Uptown Funk would become a cultural phenomenon and win the 58th Annual Grammy for the Best Record of the 2016. The infectious single would change the career of English music producer and DJ Mark Ronson. But, not before proving to be one of Ronson’s most difficult projects. The creation of Uptown Funk would push Ronson to his limits, but ultimately paid off. Ronson is known throughout the music industry for crafting pop hits infused with snapping retro-soul. Ronson’s most…

being doubted to getting recognized at the Grammy’s to having its own award show, but along the way record companies managed to steer Rap of its intended course and purpose from the voice of the streets to being the voice of corporations What is Hip Hop? It is a name for the 4 elements of the late 70 's New York City renaissance which includes break dancing, emceeing (rapping), graffiti, and turntablism. It was birthed at the end of the Disco era and the first rap was released in 1979, “Rapper’s…

This situation is illustrated in the film Wild Style, it demonstrates the interconnections between music, dance and art in the development of hip-hop culture. The movie shows us how the people who live in the South Bronx tried to survive, the importance of a graffiti and the role of the hip-hop music in the society. The South Bronx was a place where many low-income people lived during the 1960s. However, the Cross Bronx Expressway construction has…

The singer has started to suggest drug use, has become more promiscuous or seen as such since her involvement with hip hop, and has started taken on twerking, a dance originating in African American communities."To defend her actions, she uses statements like she knew she was "always black" (Institutionalized Racism in the Music Industry). This speaks volumes as to how white America views…

boastful rhyming patter glibly by vocalist or vocalists” (“Rap Music”). Rapping is a major part of hip hop culture which was developed in the Bronx in the mid nineteenth century. A group of young African Americans and Latinos living in a low income area where there was little to do and soon they made the hip hop culture (rapping, graffiti art, breakdancing and DJ-ing). Rap has become its own genre within hip hop culture because it grew popular so rapidly. Rapping is used as an expression and…