Black Music Month: Is HipHop Still Considered Black Music?
Black Music Month is a month where many people examine music creators, the inspiration behind their creations, and modern record company politics.
Within this paradigm we find various inspirational expressions of swing, jazz, gospel, blues, R&B, country music, hip-hop, rock 'n' roll, house, techno, and black folk from America and around the world. The question of whether hip-hop is still black music can be dark as a man.
All forms of black musical history (that is, music created by oppressed black people and their descendants) are multifaceted, part narrative, part historical record, and part act of rebellion against an oppressive system. As a source of personal expression. The entertainment is relatively shallow.
With each generation, new art forms emerge that interpret the era through music. Just as the DNA of all forms of black music in America is in the hands of the black people who created it, it lives on in the music that came before it.
Chronological themes range from hip-hop to rock 'n' roll, blues, reggae, gospel, jazz and slavery, and Africa itself as call and response, taking heavy hits and history into account.
In today's context, hip-hop music has changed in many ways since its emergence in the South Bronx 50 years ago. It has become a multi-billion dollar industry in the economy. With technology, making music has never been easier. In poetry? As for beauty, we leave it to the beholder.
Many artists agree that once they've made and released music, it's no longer their own. Now it's a matter of culture but luckily money. And the soldier stopped.
Cultural self-expression means belonging to a particular community, its ideas, traditions and art. Black music remained largely unwritten and unpublished until George W. Johnson recorded his ragtime whistle as "The Whistling Coon" in 1890, but African Americans at that time, free or unpaid, were the true engines of creativity. . .
From slave chants and chain gangs to impassioned preacher speeches and epic '70s comebacks, black cultural self-expression helped our American ancestors survive next, survive last, and move on. That's why we are here today. We are their tomorrow.
Likewise, there would be no hip-hop without jazz, blues, rock or reggae. Rock would not be the same without gospel or blues, and vice versa.
Black cultural expressions are so prevalent in America today that it has changed to introduce several versions of black cultural expressions. A version that reflects America's view of itself. It is shameful, greedy, reckless, rude, cunning, vindictive, petty, abusive and murderous.
These features are found in all human societies and in all forms of human expression, both historically and today. As is typical of all forms of black music in America and the Caribbean, the motivation of many of hip-hop's greatest writers was a struggle against the pains of darkness: the agony of poverty, demonization, and alienation in the desire for honor. .. . In a crazy world.
Yes, there are overflows of happiness, deep and eternal heights, but you have to seek them. Wherever the marketing budget went, popularity also prevented a catastrophic expansion.
Economically, the record industry derives most of its profits from the experience of black Africans - music that stems from sleaze. The true extent of this has just been revealed.
Rock and roll is rooted in blues and R&B, so it is filled with the energy of its ancestors. Blues is filled with elements of rhythm and ragtime, so it is full of ancestral energy. While the drums of plantation life resemble African rhythms, they are also filled with ancestral energy.
But all forms of art become part of a larger community when used for a larger community. However, an actor's legitimacy is measured by his interpretation of language, events, and the reality of black life into music.
The words and concepts used in rap music always come from the mouths and experiences of people in their teens and 20s. As usual, rappers have an age range that musicians from other genres don't have. Except for Jay-Z, Ku Tang Clan and Snoop Dogg, no one has tried to listen to pop-pop. Meanwhile, Jon Bon Jovi, Cher and the Grateful Dead managed to fill the stadium in a matter of hours .
Capitalism (and racism) changed the realm of money-making creative expression. For example, dancers used to be essential to any hip-hop group, along with graffiti artists and DJs. After 50 years, MC is in second place, and graffiti artists, dancers, and real people matter because they can't make money with labels.
So the question remains, is hip-hop still considered black music? Why, obviously, yes. The fact that there are more white rock guitarists than black guitarists playing today doesn't change the fact that Sister Rosatta Tharp is the originator. A gospel singer and guitarist who recorded music between 1938 and 1968, Tharp is considered by many music historians to be the inspiration for Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and many others.
The fact that jazz today is not dominated by black musicians does not erase the beginnings of the fusion of swing and ragtime created by blacks in New Orleans.
Similarly, even though hip-hop music was largely non-creative driven and largely black music owned by white Americans, much of its creative output still came from the marginalized and often poor neighborhoods of black America. . . Much of the language and situations stem from young black Americans and how they live.
Hence, hip-hop as a form of cultural expression is associated not only with its black origins in the South Bronx, but also with its musical origins and contemporary artists. But it would be nice if the control elements were black.
The history of music is black history.
