MUSI 2520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Prince Buster, Upper Middle Class, Square Dance
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Hip hop: a movement expressed through artistic forms called elements Something you live (krs-one) : an attitude, music that doesn"t appeal to the mainstream, voice of a generation refusing to be silenced by: Injustice: lifestyle with its own language and style of dress, main respect for hip hop is that it makes a lot of money. Rap: talking in rhyme to the rhythm of a beat . Something you do : began in poor black neighborhood in new york city, the bronx, early records sounded like funk or more than often disco music, basic function was to serve as dance music as did the jamaican. 4 elements: rapping, djing, graffiti, break/street dancing. Spare elements: human beat box, fashion, knowledge, activism. Kool herc: grandfather of hip hop, jamaican dj, said hip hop was a response to disco, really liked james brown. Early traces of rap: game songs, square dance, double dutch jump rope rhymes, prison jail house rhymes , testifying.
