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Today’s blog was written by Dr. Tina L. Ligon, Supervisory Archivist in Augmented Processing at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland
Cover photo: A Great Day in Hip Hop, Harlem, New York, by Gordon Parks, 1998
This year, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of Hip Hop. Rap, a genre of popular music rooted in funk, disco, and soul that encompasses the cultures of Black and Brown people is one part of Hip Hop culture. It tells the stories of joy, sorrow, love, hate, success, struggle, pleasure, and pain. With its beginnings in New York City, the key foundation of Hip Hop (which includes DJing, emceeing, breakdancing, and graffiti art) have spread across the country and the world, and have influenced all aspects of everyday life. Elements of Hip Hop are found in fashion, language, entertainment, pop culture, and even politics. These last five decades saw Hip Hop evolve from house parties in the Bronx to the global stage.
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Public Enemy
American hip hop group
For other uses, see Public Enemy (disambiguation).For technical reasons, "Public Enemy #1" redirects here. For uses of that term, see Public Enemy No. 1 (disambiguation).
Public Enemy is an American hip hop group formed by Chuck D and Flavor Flav in Roosevelt, New York, in 1985.[2][3] The group rose to prominence for their political messages including subjects such as American racism and the American media. Their debut album, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, was released in 1987 to critical acclaim, and their second album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988), was the first hip hop album to top The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[4] Their next three albums, Fear of a Black Planet (1990), Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black (1991) and Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (1994), were also well received. The group has since released twelve more studio albums, including the soundtrack
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Abstract
The aim of this article is to explore the development of political rap in Rome as an example of glocalization, i.e. the refraction of universalizing processes (the worldwide diffusion of American hip-hop, including its political sub-genre heir of black protest music and its connection with the Afro-American struggle in New York) through local backgrounds (the tradition of Italian revolutionary music and its relation with the history of class struggle in the country). Furthermore, it will address the current state of the art, ansträngande to draw some conclusions on its future.
1. The DNA of New Yorker rap
1.1. Black music and Afro-American liberation
As prof. Alessandro Portelli told me when I interviewed him, the relationship between black music and Afro-American liberation has always been tight as Western African music was deeply community-driven. Initially the calls for emancipation used to be mostly beneath Christian symbology in the music known as spiritua
Public Enemy
American hip hop group
For other uses, see Public Enemy (disambiguation).For technical reasons, "Public Enemy #1" redirects here. For uses of that term, see Public Enemy No. 1 (disambiguation).
Public Enemy is an American hip hop group formed by Chuck D and Flavor Flav in Roosevelt, New York, in 1985.[2][3] The group rose to prominence for their political messages including subjects such as American racism and the American media. Their debut album, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, was released in 1987 to critical acclaim, and their second album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988), was the first hip hop album to top The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[4] Their next three albums, Fear of a Black Planet (1990), Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black (1991) and Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (1994), were also well received. The group has since released twelve more studio albums, including the soundtrack
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Abstract
The aim of this article is to explore the development of political rap in Rome as an example of glocalization, i.e. the refraction of universalizing processes (the worldwide diffusion of American hip-hop, including its political sub-genre heir of black protest music and its connection with the Afro-American struggle in New York) through local backgrounds (the tradition of Italian revolutionary music and its relation with the history of class struggle in the country). Furthermore, it will address the current state of the art, ansträngande to draw some conclusions on its future.
1. The DNA of New Yorker rap
1.1. Black music and Afro-American liberation
As prof. Alessandro Portelli told me when I interviewed him, the relationship between black music and Afro-American liberation has always been tight as Western African music was deeply community-driven. Initially the calls for emancipation used to be mostly beneath Christian symbology in the music known as spiritua