Hip Hop Subcultural Movement

Hip Hop is a subcultural movement that was formed during the early 1970s by African-American, Caribbean, and Latino youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City. It became popular outside of the African-American community in the late 1980s and by the 2000s became the most listened-to musical genre in the world. The movement was created so that kids can come out, have fun, and bring out all their different cultures and turn them into music. The Bronx had a lot of mixed immigrants from all over the world with different backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities, and the one thing that brought them together was hip-hop. Creating and nurturing diversity is an achievement of hip hop. “The hip hop generation is not a monolithic group. Hip hop is …show more content…
The first part is Dj-ing, is someone who plays records at a concert and parties making sure the crowd is having a good time while using an instrument called the turntable mixing and putting together all sorts of music. The second one is breakdancing, this a crazy style of dancing in which you have to be very athletic to dance because it includes movement of the whole body, spinning on your head, hands, back and knees. Graffiti is also hip hop, its visualized art that people use to express themselves on walls in the subway and everywhere they can find the space. They want their talent to be seen but are also scared to go to jail. MC-ing, known as master of ceremonies are known to be the hosts of parties and making people laugh, controlling the crowd, coming up with rhymes, and they also know rapping. As time went by the culture spread across the whole Unites States and worldwide, and it changed a lot of people in many ways and also created a lot jobs for the world. Now hip hop is viewed as a billion dollar corporation. On the other hand it has also been portrayed as a bad thing, due to the fact that people who follow or practice the culture commit violence and their dressing is most of the time not suitable for …show more content…
Their lyrics created a canon for the culture. In the tradition of the Old Testament prophets, many rappers give vivid depictions of the struggles of daily life. Rappers have emerged as prophets, offering laments on behalf of their communities, and giving voice to the pain and suffering of a generation. Given its historical context, unlike other primarily African American cultural forms, hip hop does not find its origins within the historic African American church, but upon the hardened streets of urban America. Hence, hip hop’s spirituality is not directly informed by the Christian African American religious experience, such that “the pulpit lost influence with young blacks and was replaced by street commentator voices… [that] fuelled the rise of hip-hop culture – rappers…who today have greater influence over black youth than preachers”. Waters