In the early 1970s, the unnamed culture known today as hip-hop was forming in New York City’s ghettos. Sadly today, when the media speaks of hip-hop, it are referring to one element of the culture: rap, and more specifically the rap industry, rather than the entire culture of hip-hop and its many elements, which include MC’ing, dancing, DJ’ing, aerosol art and more! Each element in this urban movement had its own identity, history and terminology that eventually contributed to the development of a unified culture. The common pulse which gave life to all these elements was rhythm, clearly demonstrated by the beats the DJ selected, the dancers’ movements, the emcees’ rhyme patterns and the writer’s name or message painted in a flowing, stylized fashion.
Hip-hop was a direct reflection of N.Y.C. youths’ love, rage, desperation, salvation, defiance, order, chaos, identity, power, etc., and was quickly embraced by the world and became the voice of many. If I had to summarize hip-hop as one word, I would have to say it is POWER.
Jorge Pabon, a performer and choreographer known as Pop Master Fabel
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/answers-from-a-hip-hop-veteran-part-3/
Hip-hop was a direct reflection of N.Y.C. youths’ love, rage, desperation, salvation, defiance, order, chaos, identity, power, etc., and was quickly embraced by the world and became the voice of many. If I had to summarize hip-hop as one word, I would have to say it is POWER.
Jorge Pabon, a performer and choreographer known as Pop Master Fabel
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/answers-from-a-hip-hop-veteran-part-3/
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