hip hop culture
Breakdancing and MCing
Hip hop culture is the broader artistic and social movement that emerged from Black and Latino communities in 1970s New York, encompassing rap music, DJing, breakdancing, and graffiti art.
The term distinguishes the culture from hip hop as a musical genre alone: Hip hop culture shaped fashion, slang, and attitudes for generations.
The culture emphasizes authenticity, street credibility, and creative expression born from urban experience.
- breakdancingAcrobatic hip-hop dance form
- cyphersEncryption systems or zeros
- rap battleImprovised rhyming competition
- streetwearSkate and hip-hop clothing
- samplingExtracting subset for study
boom bap · turntable · flow · graffiti art · beatboxing · four on the floor · beat · protest songs · storytelling · social commentary · youth outreach · economic empowerment · street corner · DJing · five elements · activism · South Bronx · golden age
- culturesMediterranean cultures, subculture, multicultural, counterculture, underground
- music culturefandom, fandoms, music taste, live music, fan communities
- graffititagging, throw-ups, throw-up, tag, pieces
- movementsmove, step, turn, shift, slide
hip hop cultureclassical music
Western orchestral tradition
classical tradition · baroque music · chamber music · art music · orchestral music