Sunday, June 29, 2014

A History Of Underground Hip Hop And Popular Music

By Todd S. Braun


Hip Hop is a cultural, musical and artistic movement that emerged in South Bronx, New York, around the early 1970s. Originally, it was popular in black and Latino ghettos of New York, but later spread quickly throughout the country and the world to the point of becoming a major urban culture. Hip Hop culture spans several disciplines: rap (or MCing), DJing, breakdancing (or b-boying), graffiti, beatboxing. These disciplines, appeared before Hip Hop and were integrated at the birth of the movement.



From 2005, when Eminem retreated to a creative break the dominance of the Detroit scene took off rapidly and crossover musicians such as Kanye West and Gnarls Barkley experienced great success. The race for sales in the autumn of 2007 between West's album Graduation and 50 Cent's ' Curtis was intense. Graduation proved that innovative rap music can be just as commercially successful as gangsta rap.

With the beginning of the 1990s, the rarely used music genre term Hip Hop increasingly replaced the previously used term rap. With the advent of NWA and Public Enemy, the era of gangsta rap began in earnest. Other so-called West Coast artists including Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg and 2Pac also emerged, and for the first time New York (the East Coast) was no longer the center of Hip Hop.

The strongest acts of the early 1990s on the East Coast were either intellectual formations, especially the Native Tongues Posse, such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Black Sheep, Jungle Brothers, and the Fu - Schnickens, or political acts such as Public Enemy or KRS-One. Although some very experimental or politically dedicated tones found strong favor with the critics.

Around the 1990s, artists such as Nas Illmatic, The Infamous Mobb Deep and the Wu-Tang Clan reached milestones for rap music and thus defined the East Coast sound. The Gangsta Rap had now taken the lead and the following years were marked by the feud between east and west coast (where the assignment was not always strictly geographical). The commercial rise of Hip Hop around the 1990s was still bullish.

The genre fits both continuity and rupture with black American music. It continuous manifestation as a distant descendant of complaints about the living conditions of African Americans in the Bronx, the tradition of improvisation appeared with ragtime and jazz, and musical dialogues (call and response).

In the fall of 1981, the single "Der Kommissar" by the Austrian Falco created a sensation in the pop scene. It reached No. 1 in almost all of Europe. With his development, Falco was sometimes referred to as the first white rapper. In particular, the label Sugar Hill, which had already released Rapper's Delight, quickly moved to secure Grandmaster Flash under contract, who worked with the rap group The Furious Five since 1977.

Hence, the inclusion of this music in the broader cultural group mentioned above, and the attitude of hip-hoppers who keep the dress style (street wear), the language of the ghetto (slang) and values. The attachment of hip-hoppers in their neighborhood (through the notion of representation) translates positively through a generally strong link with other hip-hoppers from the same place, expressed by the terms crew, posse, squad, homies, clan or clique. Rappers and underground Hip Hop producers are at the forefront of the culture and also influence popular music today.




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