What Is West Coast Rap?
Hip-hop is a postmodern style of music borne of the fiercely impoverished neighborhoods of the South Bronx borough of New York City during the early 1970s. The rough economic situation and subsequent closure of many government-funded music programs led people to remake, rearrange, or remix existing recordings into completely different compositions with the use of turntables. DJs would extend the break or "get down" section of previously released songs by alternating between duplicate copies of a vinyl recording with the use of two turntables and a mixer. Soon MCs entered the equation to enhance the DJ's efforts and act as a crowd moderator. Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc is credited with creating this medium that soon blossomed into a subculture that encompassed five main components: DJing, MCing, beat-boxing, graffiti, and break dancing. In time, live instruments, drum machines, synthesizers, and computers became the tools by which artists created their music. The first hip-hop recordings, made in the late '70s and early '80s, exposed the genre to a national audience, and by the turn of the century it morphed into a worldwide phenomenon. As a result, numerous subgenres and fusions of hip-hop were developed based largely upon the geographic, musical, and environmental influences prevalent in each particular region of the world.
Notable Artists: Public Enemy, the Wu-Tang Clan, Grandmaster Flash, Snoop Dogg.
Hip-hop is a postmodern style of music borne of the fiercely impoverished neighborhoods of the South Bronx borough of New York City during the early 1970s. The rough economic situation and subsequent closure of many government-funded music programs led people to remake, rearrange, or remix existing recordings into completely different compositions with the use of turntables. DJs would extend the break or "get down" section of previously released songs by alternating between duplicate copies of a vinyl recording with the use of two turntables and a mixer. Soon MCs entered the equation to enhance the DJ's efforts and act as a crowd moderator. Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc is credited with creating this medium that soon blossomed into a subculture that encompassed five main components: DJing, MCing, beat-boxing, graffiti, and break dancing. In time, live instruments, drum machines, synthesizers, and computers became the tools by which artists created their music. The first hip-hop recordings, made in the late '70s and early '80s, exposed the genre to a national audience, and by the turn of the century it morphed into a worldwide phenomenon. As a result, numerous subgenres and fusions of hip-hop were developed based largely upon the geographic, musical, and environmental influences prevalent in each particular region of the world.
Notable Artists: Public Enemy, the Wu-Tang Clan, Grandmaster Flash, Snoop Dogg.
Music
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This article or section deals primarily with Europe and does not represent a worldwide view of the subject.Please improve this article or discuss the issue on the talk page.
For other uses, see Music (disambiguation).
Performing arts
Major forms
Dance · Music · Opera · Theatre
Minor forms
Circus Arts
Genres
Drama · Tragedy · Comedy · Tragicomedy · Romance · Satire · Epic · Lyric
Music is an art form whose medium is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses".[1]
The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreati
on in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.
To people in many cultures, music is inextricably intertwined into their way of life. Greek philosophers and ancient Indians defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound."[2] According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, "the border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.… By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be, except that it is 'sound through time'."[3]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
This article or section deals primarily with Europe and does not represent a worldwide view of the subject.Please improve this article or discuss the issue on the talk page.
For other uses, see Music (disambiguation).
Performing arts
Major forms
Dance · Music · Opera · Theatre
Minor forms
Circus Arts
Genres
Drama · Tragedy · Comedy · Tragicomedy · Romance · Satire · Epic · Lyric
Music is an art form whose medium is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses".[1]
The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreati
on in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.To people in many cultures, music is inextricably intertwined into their way of life. Greek philosophers and ancient Indians defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound."[2] According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, "the border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.… By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be, except that it is 'sound through time'."[3]
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