hip-hop

THE HIP HOP CULTURE

The hip-hop culture it's formed by four elements, all of which represent the different manifestations of the culture: rap music, turntablism, or Dj's, breakdance and the graffiti art.

Etymology

The term Hip-Hop is the combination of two separate slang terms - "HIP", that is an African American English as the early as 1898 meaning current or in the now, and "HOP" for the hopping movement

History

The Hip-Hop movement start in the 70's as an underground movement and start in the South Bronx  area of the New York City focusing on Mcing, breakbeats, and house parties.All of this start at the department of DJ Kool Herc and soon it spreads on all New York City.

Street gangs were prevalent in the poverty of the South Bronx, and much of the graffiti, rapping, and b-boying at these parties were all artistic variations on the competition and one-upmanship of street gangs. Sensing that gang members' often violent urges could be turned into creative ones

ELEMENTS

DJing

DJing is te technique of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ mixer.

one of the firsts DJ's was the DJ Kool Herc