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1、Rap 英文介绍RapRap originated in the mid-1970s in New York City.Rap represents the ultimate expression of attitude in popular culture provoking even more outragethan Rock n Roll in the 50s and Punk 70in the 70s.mainstream cultureIn the early 1970s a musical genre was born in the crime-ridden neighborhoo

2、ds of New York City.Gifted teenagers with plenty of imagination but little cash began to forge a new style from spareparts.Hip-hop as it was then known was a product of pure streetwise ingenuity extracting rhythmsand melodies from existing records and mixing them up with searing poetry chronicling l

3、ife in thehood hip-hop spilled out of the ghetto.Hip-hop is the voice of a generation that refused to be silenced by urban poverty a localphenomenon fueled with so much passion and truth it could not help but reach the entire world.Two things that is very important to understand the Rap:Rap is talki

4、ng in rhyme to the rhythm of a beat.Hip-hop is a sub-culture a way of life for a society of people who identify love and cherish rapbreak dancing DJing and graffiti.mainstream cultureSub-cultureDJ disc jockeyIn the early 70s when disco was monopolizing the mainstream airwaves the rap movement wasjus

5、t being born.The teenagers of the South Bronx and Harlem didnt have the money to pay for admission to theexpensive midtown and downtown clubs so they had their own parties.Along the way clubs houseparties and block parties sprang up all over New York ghettosgiving birth tothe neighborhood DJPete DJ

6、Jones was about the most notable DJ during those early days.He epitomized the truemeaning of a DJ.He had the precise timing necessary to enable the partygoer to dance nonstopwhile keeping the break of a record playing continuously.He had a clean mixing style and anexcellent sound system.Kool DJ Herc

7、 the godfather of hip-hop was a Jamaican-born DJ who moved to the Bronx in 1967.With his unique playlist of RB soul funk and obscure disco Herc quickly became the catalyst ofthe hip-hop way of life.The kids from the Bronx and Harlem loved his ghetto style which gavebirth to the concept of the B-Boy.

8、The B-Boy-or beat boy break boy Bronx boy-loved thebreaks of Kool Herc and as a result soon created break dancing.These were the people of thehip-hop culture.While Pete DJ Jones was the pioneer for the black disco crowd in New York CityHerc and the B-Boys were the essence of the hip-hop movement bec

9、ause of they lived the lifestyle.The way they danced dressed walked and talked was unique as opposed to most of the mainstreamculture.Its a kind of sub-culture.Its not in touch with the urban streets of America.Hip-hop-a style of music which is composed of two main elements:rapping and DJing alongwi

10、th break-dancing and graffiti these are the four components of hip-hop a cultural movementwhich began among African Americans in New York City in the 1970s.The term Rap issometimes used synonymously with hip-hop music though it is also used to refer specifically tothe practice of rapping which is just one component of hip hop.Both the musical and lyrical content of Rap still make it anathema to the majority of the public butthere is little doubt that its enormous significance as a social document will be recognized whenfuture generations write the history books.