Re: the "hip-hop" thing
John G. Dennett III (dennettj@stripe.Colorado.EDU)
Fri, 21 Jun 1996 08:45:08 -0600 (MDT)
At 08:07 PM 6/20/96 -0500, MR BOB DAVIS wrote:
>In a "commercial" sense, hip hop probably got it's start in the street,
>basements & parks of NYC in the mid to late 1970's. However you could
>also go back to 1970 or and give a listen to the Last Poets or
>"Lightning Rod" (Hustlers Convention & Doriella DuFontaine /w Jimi
>Hendrix) for the roots of modern day hip hop.
I would definitely site them for the origins of "rap" -- particularly the
Last Poets -- but of course we could trace it back thousands of years until
all of our heads spun from the thought of it. : )
When I think of "hip-hop" I can't imagine it with out the inclusion of some
post-modern instrumentation: turntables or a drum machine or maybe a
casiotone. To my mind, "rap" can exist without any of these things.
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John