1. Hip-Hop as a Social Movement
... its original status of a genre but as an essential learning tool to understand a consistently misunderstood and isolated faction of people. The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts ... involving urban youth. Hip-Hops roots go far beyond its emergence at 1520 Sedwick Avenue, then introduced by the infamous DJ Kool Herc, a classic story about the first instance of breaking and rapping over a beat inside a garage house party in the Bronx. But long before ... and skills necessary ...
- Word Count: 1971
- Approx Pages: 8
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate