are many different music genres. Rock and hip hop are two of the most popular music genres. These two music genres are both alike‚ but also have differences. Rock and hip hop have many similarities. One of the main similarities is the types of instruments they both use. Both rock and hip hop use a drum pattern or a beat that loops throughout the entire song. Both genres use a lead instrumental‚ Rock music usually consists of a guitar and a bass. Hip Hop uses many types of lead instruments but also
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When the public thinks about hip-hop‚ people more than likely come up with the rhyming‚ beats with profound base‚ and the scratching of a record into their mind. However‚ Hip-hop has become a part of American culture with its music‚ and lifestyle. The style of music has transformed from the rap music that we see these days. The ground-breaking establishment of artists helped institute the hip-hop movement in many types of music‚ and its performance. It has also branched into in many different styles
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Many believe that hip hop is the birth of jazz. Professor Sanchez states that hip hop closely relates to jazz by following a three-step process of experience oriented poetry‚ “(1) Acknowledging the burden; (2) bearing witness; (3) Finding redemption” (Sanchez 5). A notorious hip-hop song from the 1980’s which incorporates the three-step process associated with jazz is “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash. The song “The Message” speaks of the burdens of living in a crime ridden urban America‚ the numerous
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Hip-hop has been emerged in the early 1970s and took over the world since. There are so many reasons why hip-hop is so popular‚ not only in the states‚ but all around the world. One of the reasons is that hip hop is used as a representative of people’s thoughts‚ minds‚ and voices. People express their hidden feelings‚ and silently and peacefully protest through songs. It is considered to be a non-violent way of fighting. What makes hip-hop special is that “hip hop isn’t just music-it’s also attitude
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In the essay ”Hip-Hop wars”‚ Tricia Rose focuses on the debate in hip-hop about sexism and discrimination. Sexism in hip-hop can be divided into two groups. People in the first group use hip-hop’s sexism as a way to strengthen the image that black people are strange and subordinate‚ and facilitate anti-feminist situations. People in the other group are liberals who like hip-hop‚ they concern about sexism because hip-hop heavily relies on it. The images that degradation of black women is strongly
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Impact of Hip Hop Music The Main Impact of Hip-hop music is on the Kids of today. The music‚ slang and clothing are a couple of examples of heavy influences. Why can’t they be more like ... actually kids today are pretty much the same are their parents and grandparents were when it comes to creating their own culture. Only now‚ instead of flappers‚ hippies or punks‚ we’ve got a generation of youths influenced by hip-hop culture. It’s hard to argue that the current domination of hip-hop in popular
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December 2016 Hip Hop vs Rap When I think of Hip Hop‚ I think of mainly guys beatboxing. Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines using your mouth and voice. Hip Hop artists such as Doug E. Fresh and Vanilla Ice used the beatboxing style of rhyming in a lot of music in the mid 80’s and early 90’s. Another thing that comes to mind is men walking around with boom boxes up close to their face rhyming to the music melodies being played. Hip Hop is described
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knowledge of selected theoretical perspectives and key concepts to evaluate the views about hip hop expressed here. (40 marks) Hip hop marks a significant change in society. It represents the expression of disenfranchised young people originally from the Bronx. However what argument A tries to express is that hip hop is slowly loosing its value and significance looking from a Marxist point of view. Hip hop had many values associated with its subculture‚ values were based on there life the ability
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“Hip Hop has always been bragging’ and boasting and i’m better at this than you and i’m better at that than you”(Eminem). Hip Hop will forever be a competitive activity. Hip Hop is the streets. Hip Hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your likelihood and its not compromised. Its blunt. Its raw‚ straight off the street from the beat to the voice to the words. Although hip hop may seem to encourage adolescents
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Like so many things that have achieved massive success in the United States and around the world‚ hip hop has had to endure its fair share of obstacles. Hip hop is an art form that is inherently postmodern‚ progressive‚ and urban‚ and one that includes modes like street graffiti‚ breakdancing‚ and rapping – all which have had some degree of difficulty finding respect in a country trying desperately to hold onto the past. When Jazz came to the American scene in the early twentieth century‚ it too
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