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Hip-hop educator and artist Professor A.L.I. currently teaches a University of California approved Hip-Hop History course entitled "Beats, Rhymes and Life: Hip Hop History 101" as part of the Blend-Ed Consortium of schools (The Athenian School, College Preparatory School, Lick-Wilmerding, Urban School, and Marin Academy) in which his "XFactor ...
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Hip-hop culture has historically been shaped and dominated by African American men, [7] though female hip hop artists have contributed to the art form and culture as well. [8] Hip hop culture is characterized by the key elements of rapping, [b] DJing and turntablism, and breakdancing; [9] [10] other elements include graffiti, beatboxing, street ...
Hip-hop or hip hop, formerly known as disco rap, [7] [8] is a genre of popular music, that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s primarily from African American, Afro-Latin, and Afro-Caribbean musical aesthetics practiced by youth in the South Bronx.
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation is a 2005 book by Jeff Chang chronicling the early hip hop scene. The book features portraits of DJ Kool Herc , Afrika Bambaataa , Chuck D , and Ice Cube , among others, and is based on numerous interviews with graffiti artists, gang members, DJs , rappers , and hip hop activists .
Hip Hop studies has been growing as an academic discipline since the mid-1990s; two decades after its genesis. By the millennium and in the early 2000s, scholars such as Tricia Rose, Michael Eric Dyson, Cornel West, Anthony B. Pinn, Jeff Chang, Nelson George, Bakari Kitwana, Mark Anthony Neal, and Murray Forman, began to engage Hip Hop's history, messages of resistance, social cognizance ...
Progressive rap music is defined by its critical themes around societal concerns such as structural inequalities and political responsibility. According to Lincoln University professor and author Emery Petchaur, artists in the genre frequently analyze "structural, systematic, and reproduced" sources of oppression and inequality in the world, [3] while Anthony B. Pinn of Rice University ...