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What exactly is Hip Hop?

f-hip-hop-lives-228x300This musical genre that not only focuses on the black neighborhoods of the Bronx, is more complex, is an artistic and cultural movement that emerged in America in the late 1970s. The main communities where did this genre are African American and Latin-American neighborhoods New York (Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn) where from the beginning emphasized as characteristic manifestations of music (funk, rap, blues, DJing). It also highlights the dance (hustle, uprocking, lindy hop, popping, locking) and painting (spray, bombing, murals, political graffiti). Now everything has become a cultural phenomenon and even subject of study in many universities. To learn more hip hop is much more than music, is a cultural and artistic movement that

emerged in America in the late 1960s in the African American and Latin American neighborhoods Yorkers. The so-called black power for some, told from the perspective of marginalization, which leads to not only African American race, but Latin Americans and races who are marginalized. The basics of Hip Hop could say that they are the funk, rap, blues and DJinng, and dance, the hustle, uprocking, lindy hop, popping, locking, spray paint, bombing, murals, political graffiti, as a way to protest against government policy and socially established.