I typed the question of "What is the origin of hip hop?" to my AnswerBus
system ( http://misshoover.si.umich.edu/~zzheng/qa-new/ ), and I got
following answers: (I don't know if they are correct though)
1. http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~english/cbl/project/generation/hip.htm
With its origins in sampling two records by cutting them up on turntables,
and freestyling vocals over the top, hip hop is possibly the most
postmodern of all musical genres.
2. http://www.daveyd.com/addissablackart.html
Understand that no matter what you THINK, Hip Hop is of soley African
origin.
3. http://www.mrblunt.com/?sec=culture&page=origin
Hip-Hop is relative to each individual, different experiences and
different ancestry will make the origin of any element, different and they
are all still right.
4. http://www.daveyd.com/addissablackart.html
No one can show me a Hip Hop trend outside of using the Latin term loc
(from loco) that is of ANYTHING other than African origin.
5. http://www.plato.nl/e-primer/breakbeat.htm
The rhythms are more or less Trip-Hop in using breakbeats that origin from
Hip-Hop, James Brown and Meat Beat Manifesto.
6. http://www.unc.edu/dth/archives/1998/02/021298/div.html
These are the four questions commonly asked by people who have no sense of
hip-hop culture and its origin.
7. http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/comments/522.html
If you want some insight into the origin of Hip Hop, there is no better
place to start than this top of the pile complilation of breaks from DJ
Pogo and the Harmless Crew.
Zhiping
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Meunier Fanny wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> could anybody help a colleague of mine who is looking for the origin of the
> word 'hip hop'?
>
> his original message says;
> >is it an allusion to "hip" (fleshy part of
> >either side of the human body above the legs) or to "hip"(s)
> >(interested in the latest fashions in behaviour, music,
> >entertainment,etc) and "hop" (act of hopping, jumping"?
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Fanny
>
>
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