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    Hip hop originated in the South Bronx, New York in the 1970s among African Americans and Hispanics. DJ Kool Herc introduced the style by playing and extending drum beats from records at parties. Breakdancing has roots in the African martial art capoeira. Rappers use rhymes to express life in the ghetto, how to escape it, and how to cope with loss. While some see graffiti as vandalism, others view it as a creative art form.

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    Hip hop originated in the South Bronx, New York in the 1970s among African Americans and Hispanics. DJ Kool Herc introduced the style by playing and extending drum beats from records at parties. Breakdancing has roots in the African martial art capoeira. Rappers use rhymes to express life in the ghetto, how to escape it, and how to cope with loss. While some see graffiti as vandalism, others view it as a creative art form.

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    Hip hop originated in the South Bronx, New York in the 1970s among African Americans and Hispanics. DJ Kool Herc introduced the style by playing and extending drum beats from records at parties. Breakdancing has roots in the African martial art capoeira. Rappers use rhymes to express life in the ghetto, how to escape it, and how to cope with loss. While some see graffiti as vandalism, others view it as a creative art form.

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    Hip hop started in the Bronx in the 1970s and has since spread globally. It gives a voice to oppressed communities and allows creative expression through music, dance, fashion and graffiti.

    Hip hop started in the Bronx, New York in the 1970s among African Americans and Hispanics living in poverty. Kool Herc introduced the style by playing drum beats on records.

    Hip hop has elements like rap music, break dancing, graffiti art and distinct fashion. Rap gives people a chance to express themselves and talk about life in poor neighborhoods.

    The origins of Hip Hop

    Hip hop started in the ghettos of the South Bronx, New York in the 1970's. People there were poor,
    and many artists got into trouble with the police because they stole money or took drugs. The music, slang
    and fashion of the African Americans and Hispanics who invented the culture of hip hop have become
    popular all over the world. Hip-hop has been one of the main contributory factors that has helped reduce
    gang violence, giving people a chance to channel their anger through this art form.
    Hip-hop, like any other culture, has its own language, writing, dance, music and style. One of the
    elements, break dancing, is an acrobatic style of dance. Its roots can be traced to an African martial art form
    known as capoeira, a form of fighting created by slaves brought to Brazil. In break dancing, there are fewer
    limits to creativity.
    In the late 1970s, a Jamaican DJ known as Kool Herc moved to the Bronx. There, he tried to make the
    Jamaican style of music popular and performed his reggae records at parties. Unfortunately, the New
    Yorkers didn’t like reggae at that time. So Kool Herc changed his style and played the drum parts of American
    pop songs, the moments in a record when the vocals and other instruments would drop out completely for a
    measure or two of pure rhythm. These parts were very short, so he learned to make them longer by using
    two identical records and playing them over and over again. Today, hip hop music still is based on the DJ’s
    drum beats.
    The rapper speaks in the rhythm of the DJ’s beat and uses rhymes to tell us what life in the ghetto is
    like, how to get away from it and how to live on when friends die from drugs or in a shooting. Rap soon
    became popular because it offered young New Yorkers a chance to express themselves. More important is
    the fact that rap was an art form open to everyone. There were no real rules, everything was possible.
    By the summer of 1973, DJ Kool Herc had been using and refining his break-beat style for the better
    part of a year. His sister's party on August 11, however, put him before his biggest crowd ever and with the
    most powerful sound system he'd ever worked. It was the success of that party that would begin a
    grassroots musical revolution, fully six years before the term "hip hop" even entered the popular vocabulary.
    Last, but certainly not the least element, is an underrated art form known as graffiti. Although the
    majority of the society labels it as garbage, graffiti artists
    unquestionably do not believe so. When people just scribble their name
    on a window of a bus or on walls that’s vandalism. But graffiti art is
    involved with your emotions and should be seen as an expression of its
    creator. However, today, many people like the great paintings of graffiti
    better than the gray walls they hide and hire experts to paint graffiti on
    their walls. The roots of early hip hop can be seen in modern ways of
    painting, too.
    True or False
    1. Hip Hop started 30 years ago. ___
    2. Hip Hop has its origins in Puerto Rico. ___
    3. In Break Dance you are not allowed to dance whatever you want.___
    4. Kool Herc invented the style. ___
    5. Rap singing (according to the text!) is very difficult and not everyone can sing it. ___
    6. Although many people don't like graffiti, others hire graffiti artists to paint their walls. ___

    Answer the following questions


    1.Has hip-hop had any positive influence on ethnic minorities in the USA?
    _______________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________________
    2.Why is hip-hop a varied form of expression?
    ________________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________________
    3. What's the origin of break dancing?
    _______________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________________
    4. What do rappers sing about?
    _______________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________________
    5. How did Kool Herc introduce Hip Hop?
    _______________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________________
    6. Is graffiti vandalism or an art form? Explain.
    _________________________________________________________________________________
    __
    _________________________________________________________________________________
    __
    ANSWERS

    True or False?

    1- False. It started 40 years ago. (Empezó en los '70)

    2- False. It started in the Bronx.

    3- False. There are no rules in Break dancing. (There are fewer limits to creativity)
    4- True.
    5- False. It's a style available to everyone. There are no rules. (Aunque en mi opinión, es difícil)
    6- True

    Answer the following questions.


    1. Has hip-hop had any positive influence on ethnic minorities in the USA?
    Yes, because hip-hop gave them the opportunity to sing about their problems.
    2. Why is hip-hop a varied form of expression?
    Because it has elements of different cultures and has different manifestations in music, dance and
    graffiti.
    3. What's the origin of break dancing?
    The origin is thought to be capoeira, a martial art with its origins in Africa among Slaves which was then
    carried to Puerto Rico.
    4. What do rappers sing about?
    They sing about what is life like in the ghetto and about the problems they come across.
    5. How did Kool Herc introduce Hip Hop?
    He first tried to make the Jamaican style popular in the Bronx but he failed so he decided to start playing
    at the drum parts and made them longer by repeating them over and over again.
    6. Is graffiti vandalism or an art form? Explain.
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