Whether it's Negro spirituals, soul music, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, or even jazz itself, their roots can be traced back to Negro music from Africa
Blues (also known as blues) is a form of music that has been practiced in Africa. The blues (also known as blues, blues) is a type of vocal and instrumental music based on the pentatonic scale, which is also characterized by its specific harmonies. The blues has its origins in the chants, hymns, labor songs, hollers, and anthems of African American slaves of the past. The use of the "blues sound" in the blues and the Keio style of singing show its West African origins. The blues has had a very strong influence on later American and Western popular music, with elements of the blues in or developed from ragtime, jazz, big band, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, country music, and popular songs in general, as well as even modern classical music. [1] In poetry the word is often used to describe melancholy.
The word blues (English: blues, blue, bluish) is synonymous with "blue devils", meaning moody, sad, or melancholy. As early as 1798, George Corman wrote a burlesque titled "Blue Devils, a Burlesque", and in the 19th century the word was used to denote delirium tremens and policemen. The use of the word in black American music is probably older, and the earliest written record of the word in music is Memphis William Christopher Handy's Memphis Blues of 1912.
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Hip-hop has its roots in the early 1970s, when the overall economic situation in the United States improved and blacks, who had been discriminated against, were finally beginning to acquire their own social status and build their own communities. However, for blacks, discrimination still exists, poverty still oppresses them y, if they want to change their living conditions, they must utilize their natural talents. Blacks had two great talents: sports and music. From jazz to rock and roll, and now rap, the easiest way for a black man to get ahead is to play basketball, otherwise it's music. And Hip-Hop is defined by five components: music, dance, graffiti, tattoos and clothing. It didn't come about in a day, but over a long period of time, it took shape and established itself as a genre.
When Hip-Hop started to develop in the 70's, it was divided into four major sections: 1. D.J 2. M.C 3. Dancer 4. Graf. Before we get into the history of Hip-Hop, it is important to know that these four components are essential to Hip-Hop culture, and one of the most closely related to music is the D.J. and M.C. The D.J. and M.C. are partners who work together, and a good D.J. with two turntables and two Beat Records can play simple beats, and there are two types of people who immediately react to the beat. At this point, there are two types of people who will react immediately, one is M.C, and the other is Dancer. M.C's mouth starts to recite the rap he thinks of, which is mostly about expressing his dissatisfaction or talking about some daily life trivialities. Dancer, on the other hand, starts to dance with his body to express what he wants to say. It goes without saying that Graffti is a term used to explain Graffti, and I think if you've ever studied painting, you must really want to let passers-by enjoy your work, right? Graffti Art (i.e. using spray paint to paint on the walls of the street or train carriages .....) is one of such artworks. Graffti Art (i.e. using spray paint to paint on the walls of the street or train carriages ) is a manifestation of this mentality.
Hip-Hop
was created in the late 1970s and early 1980s among poor working-class black people in New York. It brought together African music, American music, and artistic culture.Hip-Hop is an umbrella term for a street culture made up of a variety of elements, including music, dance, rap, DJ techniques, clothing, graffiti, and more. In the beginning, Hip-Hop culture consisted of four main elements: DJ, MC, Street Dance, and Graffiti, and this period of Hip-Hop was called Old School Hip-Hop.
While Hip-Hop was a big hit in the 90's, a lot of different styles sprouted up in the New School era. Hip-hop became not only the music of the urban black ghetto, but also the voice of the urban black ghetto. Rap musicians began to describe the hard lives of them or the people around them.
The term "Hip-Hop" is an emerging category of music genre that has evolved since its emergence to represent more than just a single category of music, Hip-Hop has evolved at the turn of the century in the 2000's to become synonymous with an emerging lifestyle that includes: music, music, clothing and behavior, etc. genus known as street culture! In the whole culture of Hip-Hop, the clothing has to be the most colorful part. Typical attire includes: wide T-shirts with exaggerated logos, equally wide and dragging boardshorts or sweatpants with side zippers, basketball shoes or boardshorts, golf hats or baseball caps, bandanas of various national styles, and hair dyed or braided in different ways. The corresponding accessories include tattoos, silver earrings or nose rings, sunglasses, MD Walkmans or MP3s, skateboards, backpacks, and so on. These bits and pieces of clothing come together to form the Hip-Hop fashion that has been popular in the U.S. for the past 20 years. Hip-Hop is a street culture and an attitude towards life. He has a close relationship with skateboarding, scooters and other extreme sports that are also part of street culture.
Hip-Hop one has **** the same way of behavior, even if you don't know each other, you can accurately judge from his appearance.Hip-Hop has been twenty years old! From the early eighties to the second millennium A.D., from Old school to New school, from no one likes scratching records to everyone going crazy for street music, this one culture has brought more to the world than anyone could have imagined. Over the past twenty years, Hip-Hop culture has taken root in the United States, successfully combining entertainment, business, music and even politics. It is an independent and colorful group consciousness, it is a solid and irreplaceable cultural form, it is not just the "black music" that we often say, it is not just a hand gesture shouting "check it out", and it is not just a pop star playing the blues. Hip-Hop culture is Hip-Hop culture, and it has a human-like character and emotional profile. Simply put, Hip-Hop has four important ingredients.
B-Boy
In fact, the beginning of B-Boy (Breaking Popping Locking) was already in 1983. At that time, we called it "breakdancing". However, this culture in foreign countries, currently in the country can only be called as a "popular" can not be integrated into the real life, so far it is still unable to continue, and at that time the information is limited, can really understand this culture is not much, because of this, for this kind of text can not be perfected to teach the next generation, so to 1987 So by 1987, Breaking was in a state of decline and had even become an outdated popular topic. "Breakdancing is a culture abroad, but in China it became history within a few years.
While breakdancing was on hiatus for a while, many new dance groups emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s (by which time the Old School had evolved into the New School). In fact, at this stage in China, the types of dance were not yet clearly differentiated, with fewer people playing Floor Breaking, but mainly Locking and Poping, and the source of information at this time was Japan. In the mid-nineties New Schools flourished, Oldschools were also present, but not many of them really lasted, and almost all of those who existed in this period were old faces. It was only at the end of the nineties that the 'street dance' trend took off and caught the attention of the media again.
Street dance is a powerful dance, full of dynamism, large range of action, requiring dancers to be in good physical condition. Actions such as one-handed handstands, forward rolls, windmill spins and back spins are difficult performances, and street dancers must maintain enough physical support as well as possess strong will and courage.
Graffiti
We often see in black movies the station subway and even train cars are painted on the outside of some strange words, that is spray paint and graffiti. These brightly colored patterns represent the artist's own position or view of society, phenomena and so on. However, it is not easy to utilize spray paint bottles. True spray painters use spray paint bottles as brushes to paint on walls, floors and other places where paintings would otherwise be impossible. Famous spray painters can even combine it with clothing to create a fashion trend. Depending on the style, font and color, spray painters from all over the world have created their own cultures and worlds, in keeping with the unique and inimitable spirit of Hip-Hop.
Graffiti is a form of street art that began in the late 1960s, when teenagers used spray paint on walls to express their ideas, thoughts or to divide up territory between gangs.
Graffiti kids compete with each other in graffiti contests to see who has the most artwork and who has the best reputation. They express their disdain for adult authority by "painting" their names or pen names prominently in every possible public ****ing place. They play hide-and-seek with police with paint-filled spray guns, often stolen.
They scrawled cryptic sentences on downtown walls, crude skull-like figures, faces with primitive masks, and obscene poses from children's games. Graffiti works are visual rap and jazz, an original contribution to the visual arts. As an extension of the idea of popularism, graffiti artists have mass-produced drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, murals, T-shirts, buttons, and flags.
In 2001, fashion designers coincidentally took a cue from hip-hop pop culture, and black-and-white or colorful graffiti-style pieces could be found on everything from dresses and skirts to high heels and handbags.
DJs
DJs undoubtedly play an important role in hip-hop. Whether it's a B-Boy or an MC, they all need a DJ to assist them, otherwise they'd be blind.
In the U.S. in 1967, there is a from Kingston, Jamaica immigrants to the United States of America in the Bronx, New York biography, called Kool Herl, at that time he was the first to put the two turntables (turntable) and mixer (mixer) together, and the original "scrape the record" (scratch) action. Kool Herl was the first to put two turntables and a mixer together, and to create the original "scratch" motion. This attracted a lot of people to watch him perform on the streets. However, he lost his hands in a bar fight and Herl, known as "The founding Father of Hip Hop", had to stop performing and quit the scene. Afterwards, more DJs became famous, such as Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Master Flash, etc. They put their own DJ ideas and advanced techniques into their music production, resulting in the popular dance music at that time, such as: Plant Rock, The Message.... ...and so on.
So DJing has evolved into more than just mixing and scratching. In the trend of the past few years, DJs have crossed over into the music production field, and many of them have also taken on the role of producers themselves, such as the band Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock is the band's DJ and producer, and the band Gangstarr's DJ Premier is also the same. The role of the domestic DJ has not yet been taken seriously because the music industry believes that DJs do not have formal musical qualifications, so their work is not up to scratch; but in any case, the DJ's own ideas and advanced skills are a "faith" worth continuing even if you're hungry.
In the general public's impression, the common "DJ" will often put his hand on the turntable (turntable) on the vinyl record (LP) back and forth brushing, the other hand in the mixer (mixer) on the CROSS FADER (to control the sound of the left and right turntables) repeatedly and ceaselessly switch. The correct name for this is "Scratch", which is a combination of singing in a rhythm or a song, and then adding variety to it. However, there is not only "scratch", but there is also a technique called "Battle" where you use two identical or different records to make variations in the tempo. Both of these techniques are commonly used by Hip-Hop DJs, however, there is no certain standard in "scratch" and "battle". However, in "scratch" and "battle", there are no norms, and each DJ has his or her own style (free style). In fact, they have been popular in foreign countries for more than 20 years, since it has become a special culture, and there are also organized a number of large and small competitions, including a very credible competition, called "DMC". It originated in the early eighties, when a group of music-loving DJ clubs (a guild-like organization) called "D.M.C" (DJ Mix Club). Until now, D.M.C has been organizing competitions all over the world (U.S.A., U.K., Canada, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, etc.). The champions of each region then compete together for the world title (similar to the Olympic format). In the competition, each DJ has been showing their best and latest skills in the competition. D.M.C has produced many famous DJs, such as "Mixmaster Mike", "Q-Bear" and Hong Kong's "DJ Tommy", to name a few. etc. Currently in China, this type of DJ has always existed, but the space for them to develop is too small, and the number of people involved in the scene is getting smaller and smaller. So no matter what type of DJ, without the support of a group, it is impossible for them to develop and eventually form a new culture.
MC
The MC is the one who drives the mood the most, but that doesn't have to be a black person. The original meaning of "MC" is Micphone Controller, which means the person who "controls the microphone". So there are many people rappers will give their own stage name in front of the addition of a "MC" what so ever, such as a few years ago very famous MC Hammer. after years of inheritance, now the MC needs to have a variety of abilities, such as to be able to drive the atmosphere, can host, can RAP, can improvise rap (free style). The MC now needs to have various abilities, such as being able to drive the atmosphere, host, rap and improvise (free style). He is not only a performer, but also a communicator of Hip-Hop culture, so the content and form of his performances can be categorized into different domains and schools of performances, such as the East Coast, West Coast, non-mainstream, etc. Of course, an MC with a distinctive personal color is a good one. Of course, an MC with a distinctive personal color can further drive the popularity of catchphrases, music and clothing, which can also be seen by the fact that there are so many black singers endorsing clothing brands. In China, when the MC is not easy, because there are not yet so many domestic producers to support this type of performance, at most in the PARTY to see the performance will feel fresh, but with the current situation of love songs flying all over the world seems to be to launch the RAP market is more difficult. It's much easier to start with R&B. But at the moment, it's not easy to make RAP a part of your work. However, there are very few MCs in China who can add some melody and vocals to their works. In fact, most MCs still hope that we can start from the perspective of "playing", which is the real element of black music. Only when it is full of joy and happiness can black music survive the current trend of "love songs". The only way to get the most out of the current "love song" music market is to have a space to play.
R&B
R&B's full name is Rhythm & Blues, which is generally translated as "Rhythm & Blues". Broadly speaking, R&B can be regarded as "black pop music", which originated from the black Blues music, is the foundation of today's westbound pop and rock, Billboard Magazine has intermediated R&B for all black music, in addition to Jazz and Blues can be listed as R&B, which can be seen as a "black" music, which can be listed as "black" music. R&B can be categorized as R&B except for Jazz and Blues, which shows how wide the scope of R&B is. Hip-Hop and RAP, which have become very popular in the black music scene in recent years, are both R&B, and there is a lot of R&B in there as well.
RAP
The origins of rap can be traced back to the chanting passages in the roots of black music, and by the '70s rap had formally established itself as a style, thanks in large part to DJs in popular discotheques, who mixed the funk rhythms that were popular among blacks at the time with popular disco rhythms and repeated the same record over and over again on the record player. With the emergence of the "beatboxing" method, which is now widely known and commonly used by DJs, rap began to be circulated by black street culture and spawned a rich variety of offshoots, such as West Coast Rap, Southern Rap and Rap. (Southern Rap), Pop Rap, Old Schold, Midwest Rap, Latin Rap, Hardcore Rap, Gangsta Rap, Foreign Rap, and East Coast Rap. ), East Coast Rap (East Coast Rap), Transitional Rap (Crossover Rap), Comedy Rap (Comedy Rap), Christian Rap (Christian Rap), Alternative Rap (Alternative Rap), and so on, we are now the so-called Hip-Hop is precisely a synthesis of the current popular elements of these genres and the birth of a new term. Hip-Hop is a new term born from the combination of these genres with today's popular elements. Although it was thought in the early 1990s that this kind of rambling, foul-mouthed, rebellious music would soon disappear, in fact, in the late 1990s, with a group of new rappers and the popularity of predominantly white rap-rock, the music that was once abandoned by blacks returned to the front of popular music, and at least now in the new century, this trend will not subside RAP is an important part of black music in America. RAP is an important part of American black music, the main tone of street culture, and a piece of "dark chocolate" in the world of popular music.