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Schoenberg, Rap Music’c Early Grandfather

Rap music has been around longer than we thought. In the arts everything is recycled (many times stolen and recycled). We have had bell bottoms make a return in fashion, the bringing back of muscle cars on the road, big haired metal bands making come backs in concert and Neo-soul music which is…new soul music. Of course many are aware that the Hip hop culture and its music started in the boogie down Bronx in the 70′s but the style or monotonous melody delivery may have been grand fathered even further back. The likes of social movement groups such as the Last Poets who released a Billboard Charting album in the 1970′s, rhythmic vocals precedes the combining of lyrics over DJ breaks by delivering a lyrical flow of poetry to the beat of ethnic drums and instrumentation. The style which resembles closely the current Def Jam Poetry series or other earlier African American poets is not far off the beat of rap. You can link traces of both to the African Griots oral tradition.

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Hip Hop Music – History and Facts Revealed

Hip hop music or also known as rap, is a kind of music genres which consists of rap backing beats. The rise of hip hop is because of the change in united states urban culture especially in 1970s. Most important is the low cost involved in getting started, living cost was quite cheap, and the chances for anyone to MC with popular hip hoper.


There is a difference between Rap and MC, Rap means talk to girl or speak to someone, it was used by Rappers Delight, Sugar Hill Gang, and become the title for hip hop recording, while MC, is a word to describe a hip hoper hosting a jam and rhyming on the mic or master of ceremony.


There are important volunteers of hip hop :

1. James Brown, his dancing, musical feel and his break beats, influenced the born of hip hop genres.

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Alternative Music – History and Facts Revealed

The evolution of music has brought forth hundreds of music variations in so many forms to the basic music categories. This diversity in music forms have categorized in alternative music those ish style music that come as slight style alterations to most popular music forms (i.e. alternative rock or rock-ish music for rock music that does not really fit into the mainstream genres of a particular time period).


Alternative music is a category coined as a sort of catch-all for those sub-genres that are unclassified but can be traced with similarities to popular genres. These alternative music are usually those that were not released commercially and are recorded on independent labels. Some music from this category, from word of mouth, would soon find its way into the mainstream and become commercially successful.

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Rap Music – History and Facts Revealed

Rap music worked its way to mainstream music around the late 70s to the early 80s. Those who study history would trace rap musics roots way back in American history when Griots or West African folk poets used to deliver their stories in a rhythmic tone accompanied by drums and other sparse instrumentation. Today, the art of rapping has evolved into something that spans cultural and lifestyle dimensions.


Folk roots meet Jamaican-style

Rap music combines the poetry of the Griots with Jamaican-style toasting. Toasting is used by Jamaican disc jockeys or DJs in dance parties to coax people to dance to their music. DJs are the first rappers or MCs (short for master of ceremonies). They would speak over their music to shout out slogans like Work it, work it and Move it to keep encourage continuous dancing on the dance floor. Soon, toasting became longer and became less about dancing and more about life and having fun. Contextually, these raps can be insult raps, news raps, message raps, nonsense raps, and party raps.

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Aging rock band reunions: Weren’t they bad enough the first time around?

To those who were born during the Great Depression, the onset of rock and roll music must have been as horrible to them as rap and hip-hop is today for Baby Boomers. If an individual from this aforementioned era was raised on the sounds of artists such as Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, and Perry Como, then it stands to reason that rock and roll could be regarded as horrible.When disco became the rage at Studio 54 in the mid-1970′s and synthesized New Wave bands arrived a few years later, those who embraced the hard rock of the late 1960′s and early 1970′s likewise hated it.

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Music History : The history of hip hop

Recently, a Black person told me that there was no Black music. The point that she was trying to make, was that since she knew White people that listened to hip-hop and that she knew Black people that listened to Country and Rock & Roll, therefore music has no color. I disagree. We, as Black people, need to be proud of all of the accomplishments that we have, and being the creators of Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Soul, Funk, New Jack Swing, Go-Go, Neo-Soul, R&B, Rap, and Hip-Hop is definitely a big achievement for us to be proud of.

Our music is derived from a strong, courageous people that even while being enslaved used their minds, talents, and creativity to use their music to not only entertain themselves, but to help set themselves free. It’s been said, that songs such as “Wade in the Water” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” contain coded messages to aid slaves on their journey to freedom. Black music has definitely evolved from the Spirituals, Field Hollers, and Work Songs of slavery times.

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