Hip hop music

Hip-Hop is a culture and artistic movement originated in the South Bronx and Harlem, in New York City, among young African-Americans and Hispanics during the 1970s.2 3 4 5 While the term hip hop is often used to refer to the musical style (also known as rap), it is considered that hip hop is not only circumscribed to the musical sphere and on the contrary consists of four elements of which four are essential to describe this phenomenon in its totality: rap (oral: recite or sing), turntablism or "DJing" (audio or musical), breaking (physical: dance) and graffiti (visual: painting). Despite their varied and contrasted methods of execution, they are easily associated with the poverty and violence that underlies the historical context that gave birth to the subculture. For this group of young people, offers to rebel against the inequalities and hardships that lived in the urban areas of scarce resources of New York, so the "hip-hop" worked initially, as a form of self-expression that would propose to reflect, proclaim an alternative, try to challenge or simply evoke the state of the circumstances of that environment, favoring its artistic development. Even as contemporary history continues, worldwide, there is a flourishing of different styles in each of the four elements, adapting to the new contexts in which hip-hop has been immersed, without disregarding the fundamental principles, which they provide stability and coherence to the culture.