What Is Hip-Hop?
- Hip-Hop is a music genre and cultural movement.
- Hip-Hop Culture is a subculture that evolved to encompass hip hop music and a group of relative activities.
- Hip-Hop Dance is a style of dance associated with hip hop music and the culture.
- Hip-Hop Music is a style of music.
Hip Hop Influence
Building on other
African-American, Caribbean history and cultural forms |
Influence by emerging electronic music from across the globe
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Drawing on
African-American technique |
Hip Hop culture telling stories:
- expressing ideas, voicing fears and dreams, encouraging action
- conveying both past and contemporary lived experience
- expressing ideas, voicing fears and dreams, encouraging action
- conveying both past and contemporary lived experience
You Can't Stop the Hip-Hop: Charity Marsh at TEDx Regina
We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.
- Shukla
"Coconut Unlimited"
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
- Jay-Z
"Decoded"
We had two classes with Dr. Charity Marsh. First one was in class lecture where she was telling students about hip hop culture and providing examples of hip hop music. Second one was class in IMP (Interactive Media and Performance) Lab. This class interested me a lot more because we were allowed to use DJs' tools. Many people including me have never even touched such tools. We had some practice with scratching and making beats. Professionals were teaching us each basic techniques and provided examples of more complicated ones.
HERE is an video/example of using beat machine.
HERE is an video/example of using beat machine.
Hip hop is storytelling.
- Cepeda
"Bird of Paradise"
Dr. Marsh provided these practices for her lecture to let students "feel" hip hop music and not just listen to it. You can read about hip hop as much as you want but it is nothing comparing to when you try it yourself. Even such small part of it as hip hop music may make you want to know more about the culture. You are always welcome to go and join the group, come and learn more, make music with others.
Dr. Marsh's practices have big and important impact on contemporary culture on local, provincial, and national level. She is not just teaching everyone "what hip hop is and why it is" but she makes communities where people can communicate with each other.
Hip hop is not only music or dance. It is a way for people to let their impression go outside their hearts; it is a way to tell their stories, their emotions; it is a way to show their freedom. For many people hip hop is their life. And Dr. Marsh helps those people by creating community-based programs.
Hip hop is not only music or dance. It is a way for people to let their impression go outside their hearts; it is a way to tell their stories, their emotions; it is a way to show their freedom. For many people hip hop is their life. And Dr. Marsh helps those people by creating community-based programs.
These community-based programs have been shaped by the following research questions:
* What role does hip hop play in narrating settler/colonialism on the prairies IMP Labs:
Beat-making and electronic music production studio or in the north?
* What happens to stories when they are (re)told through a contemporary oral practice and mediated by the discourses associated with hip-hop cul- ture on a global scale?
* How does hip hop challenge contemporary Canada to think about “Aboriginal” politics and colonialism in the present and the future, rather than framing them as only relevant to the past?
* How does Indigenous hip hop complicate the spirit of a liberal pluralist society such as Canada?
- Marsh
"Hip Hop as Methodology"
If you want to learn more about Dr. Charity Marsh and her practices/research, click to download her research overview "Hip Hop as Methodology: Ways to Know"
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This practice and lecture have good connection with Performance and Sound Art (in this case it would be Sound as a community). Hip Hop dance is a good performance, as well as hip hop music is sort of sound art. These three topics are tightly connected between each other. One can barely exist without another (or cannot exist at all). There could me numbers of creative ideas combining these topics together and, let's say, put them all in new hip hop dancing robot.