Hip Hop Music

Introduction

Hip-hop is defined as a lifestyle and culture that primitively came forth out of Black, Latino, and Caribbean working-class youth cultures of the postindustrial urban milieu of the South Bronx, New York, during the mid-1970s. This entry looks at the involvement of women as hip-hop and rap artists and discusses charges of misogyny and women's responses. Hip hop is a cultural and artistic movement that emerged in the United States late 1970 in the African American and Latin American neighborhoods New York (Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn). From the start out as typical manifestations of music (funk, rap, blues, DJ), dance (hustle, up rocking, lindy hop, popping, locking) and paint (aerosol, bombing, murals, Political graffiti). It is a culture, a movement among cultures and races. Afro-Americans, Puerto Ricans and Jamaicans lived in poverty and marginalization where gang violence represented the worst neighborhoods. Hip-hop is born and becomes an alternative for these youth groups that are beginning to experience a new phenomenon in many cities (Kubrin, pp. 360-378).

Discussion

The Hip-Hop in its early days was made up 4 forms of expression that symbolized the freedom that claiming: the mixture, known as DJ / turntablism, graffiti, the B-Boy and MC-ing (rapping). DJ Surge in Jamaica in the 50 'with so-called "sound system" which is playing records on the street and listened to music of different styles that sounded at the time: Blues, Reggae, funk Formed real "street theater" enlivened by "DJ" who selected and punctured the different themes (Stephens, pp. 25-40).

It was in the early 70's when he comes to New York, more specifically the Bronx a Jamaican family and the young Clive Campbell was later known by the name DJ KOOL HERC who just 15 years (1973) attempts to move those environments Jamaican street to their new neighborhood in the Bronx, with a new way to play, the backspin, SPINBACK "or" recovery "which was turned back two identical disks located on two plates and through a mixer, to extend and repeat parts of music break beats and the "Break-boy had more time to dance, plus DJs enjoyed the space to liven up the party without the vocals match the themes. Born "Father of DJ'ing. The Turntablism" is defined by the International Federation Turntalism as the person who uses a "turntable" or plate like element to create music or play it literally. It is a concept that appears in 1995 with the need to conceptualize new forms and techniques used by DJs under a name that encompasses the various skills to create different sounds and rhythms (Taylor, pp. 251-253).

Graffiti: street art is a painting based on publicly-owned places or persons, is hip-hop culture, which initially was known as "witting." As we know it today has its roots Graffiti in Philadelphia (USA), whose artists stamped with Tag (signatures or nicknames) different parts of the city, wished that people could see it and read it everywhere, it was what really mattered, they wanted to draw attention of society, looking for strange and unreachable ...