HipHop/Rap 1/19

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Hip Hop as a music trend has its roots in the 70’s in funk and soul music. A stylistic particularity is the speech song, the use of samples, including the so called scratch. The social-cultural origins of hip hop are the Afro-American ghettos (residential areas with a majority of Afro-Americans).
The musical developmental fate is usually from a so called beat or loop In this case, a record player is used to play repeatedly a passage from a music piece from funk, soul, or disco genres or other beats assembled together. Rhythmic speaking/singing (rap) takes place during the repetition.



The band Rapper’s Delight at the end of the 70’s was the first constituted of its kind that was able to achieve commercial success with hip hop and rap. The band Kraftwerk created the first hip hop piece produced with synthesizers with the title Trans Europa Express. At the end of the 80s many hip hop artists/bands began to mix hip hop with heavy metal or baroque/classic.



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