Hip-Hop Summit-Nicole Carroll
With hip-hop on the rise it's a troubling subject to really define. I would like to pan off of the quote I had placed in my question by the author Reyhan Harmanci that states, “An urban, youth-oriented culture based on rhyme and color that originated in the black and latino communities in New York during the 70’s.� This quote starts of our definition very broadly. Yes, I believe that hip-hop did start of in the 1970's, but this was also the era of hippies and John Lennon. Could rock possibly put an influence in on hip-hop, instead of stereotyping the black and Hispanic cultures?
We talked about how rock in the mid-1900's could have caused women to become un-pure, which most likely was stemmed from boredom. We talk about how hip-hop is so dangerous to our younger generations that know more than we did at the age of 12, but we never blame this on the music. I believe that by looking at all the beneficial factors that my working definition of hip-hop is..."A teen/youth-oriented culture based on rhyme, rhythm, and movements that could has originated from all types of music, rock, big band, early rap, ect. It is an artist way of expressing oneself and creating a new sound for new listeners (i.e. the new youth generation)."