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Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, [1] [2] starting in the Bronx, New York City. [a] Pioneered from Black American street culture, [4] [5] that had been around for years prior to its more mainstream discovery, [6] it later reached other groups such as Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans.
25 wrz 2024 · Hip-hop originated in the predominantly African American economically depressed South Bronx section of New York City in the late 1970s. As the hip-hop movement began at society’s margins, its origins are shrouded in myth, enigma, and obfuscation.
While a number of people were influential in the creation of hip-hop, much credit is given to Kool Herc (Clive Campbell), a Jamaican immigrant who was the first major hip-hop disc jockey.
On 11 August 1973, a 'back to school jam' in New York's West Bronx kick-started a movement and birthed a whole culture, writes Rebecca Laurence.
11 sie 2023 · Who first started hip hop? New York City’s Afrika Bambaataa became known as ‘the Godfather’. A pioneering DJ and music producer, he organised block parties in the Bronx during the late 1970s.
1 kwi 2023 · Hip-hop has long since been recognised as a massive societal phenomenon and a dazzling artistic endeavour, and its stars have gone on to light up Hollywood, fascinate us on TV, and become hugely wealthy and influential business figures.
2 paź 2023 · Some historians say hip-hop culture all started at a party one hot August night in the South Bronx in 1973. DJ Kool Herc plugged his parents’ record gear into a street lamp and began...
