What is Hip Hop?
Hip Hop started in America in the 1970s, in the Bronx area of New York. Hip hop is not just music - it's a culture. Hip hop culture features DJing, graffiti art, breakdancing, MCing, and rap.
Hip Hop music has the following key features:
- Verse-chorus structure
- Rapped verses
- Sung choruses
- Simple backing music - drums, keyboard and bass
- Rhythmic ostinato (repeated pattern)
- Tells a story
- Ends of lines rhyme!
Hip Hop music has the following key features:
- Verse-chorus structure
- Rapped verses
- Sung choruses
- Simple backing music - drums, keyboard and bass
- Rhythmic ostinato (repeated pattern)
- Tells a story
- Ends of lines rhyme!
Hip Hop & Indigenous Aussie Music
Hip Hop - Performance
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