THE EVOLUTION OF HIP HOP CULTURE
THE EVOLUTION OF HIP HOP CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: I'M THINKING ABOUT HOW THE WORLD HAS CHANGED, ABOUT MODERNIZATION, AND I WONDER HOW HIP HOP CULTURE HAS DEALT WITH THESE THINGS. STREET DANCE IS ONE OF THE FOUR WELL-KNOWN ELEMENTS OF HIP HOP CULTURE, ALONG WITH DJ-ING, MC-ING AND GRAFFITI. CURRENTLY, THE INTEREST IN THE ORIGINS OF THIS CULTURE HAS GROWN AND A NEW ELEMENT HAS BEEN ADDED, CALLED KNOWLEDGE. BORN IN THE STREET, HIP HOP CULTURE HAS BEEN IN THE CONTINUOUS EVOLUTION OF SEVERAL PHASES OVER TIME. THE 1970S, THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN THE SOUTH BRONX, THE RACIAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THOSE THAT COEXISTED THERE, LED TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF THAT BEAUTIFUL AREA PERHAPS INTO ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS IN THE WORLD AT THAT TIME. WITHOUT MUCH HOPE, ALMOST OUT OF NOWHERE, THE MUSIC THAT COULD BE HEARD FROM THE BLOCK STAIRS WHERE DJ SUCH AS KOOL-HERC, BAMBAATAA, MANAGED TO GATHER MANY PEOPLE IN THE SAME PLACE, REGARDLESS OF THE BREED, COLOR OR BAND TO WHICH IT BELONGED. THIS GAVE HOPE TO THE BRONX, MANAGING TO USE THE HIP HOP CULTURE AS A MEANS OF INTEGRATION. SO, THE MUSIC, DANCE, COMMUNICATION AND GRAPHIC ART WERE THE WAY THEY BECAME A COMMUNITY THAT GAVE BIRTH TO A CULTURE THAT IS DEVELOPING EVEN TODAY AND WILL PROBABLY BE HERE FOREVER.

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