Unlike rap music, rock music uses actual instruments, such as: Guitar, a drum set, keyboards, etc. to give a song a melody. ... In most recent songs, rap music had developed and changed from a "thug" trend to a party and materialism type of genre. ... That's not to say rap doesn't share any of these topics, but over the years, rap has change a lot in the messages that are supposed to be sent with each song. ... Those two are more recent song that show how both genres speak of different topics in their song. ... As mentioned before, rap has changed, but in the past, rock a...

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Songs are usually 12bars, 16 bars, or 8 bars. ... It was influenced heavily by sacred sorrow songs, work songs, and spirituals. ... Songs from this era are known as Old School Hip Hop or Old School Rap. ... He would rap at the top of his lungs when performing his songs and worked the crowd passionately. ... Both songs also use slang as well. ...

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Certain songs or music genres are associated with various events in history. ... Songs would be sung secretly in codes, blind to field overseers but apparent to other slaves. ... Rap is not afraid to speak of what is really going on. ... Rap is also used as an identity source. Young people look to rap songs to find out what is hip and cool, and more importantly, what their friends think is hip and cool. ...

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These songs were called "folk songs," and although they were in English they still contains some African terms in them. ... Around the 1750s, slaves began to regularly, sing songs during work. ... In the late 1800s, enslavers want to covert slave to Christians and replace work songs and folk songs, with evangelical hymns This failed, but the negro spiritual was born; which were folk songs as "composition[s] performed with religious expression." ... Later, with work songs, they misinterpret several of the songs as revolt threats and eventually there were massive bans on certain types of songs....

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Pop combines rap beats with delicate harmonic rhythms to produce a totally different sound yet maintaining pop as the biggest influence on the songs. ... Rap began in late 1980s and still lives on. ... Rap suffers from the same problem rock and roll did. ... Very few white rappers have been able to overcome the barriers of rap and had success in it. ... The biggest problem with rap is its glorification of violence. ...

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Others talk of its roots in African rhythms, Spanish lyrics, Cuban street bands, Caribbean song and dance styles and Latin American jazz. ... Salsa is a very vivid kind of music, there are people who specialize on the classic style of salsa, and others, such as groups like Proyecto Uno, create new sounds like salsa rap or techno merengue. ... It can be quite slow, or very fast, and the rhythm can change within the same song. ...

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They would take turns 'calling out' in song, to which the other laborers would 'respond' in unison. ... They would also use these songs to communicate information about escaping, because the slave owners could not understand the "slaves' language". ... Muddy Waters said it best with his song, "The Blues Had A Baby, And They Named It Rock and Roll". ... So heavily that some Blues artists have even successfully sued in court, and won damages for songs they have written that were unfairly made into Rock and Roll songs without their knowledge or permission. ... Blues and...

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For example the popular music artists Macklemore & Ryan Lewis created a song about an extremely polarizing issue, gay marriage named "Same Love." This song offended some people, yet that did not stop this song from being played on YouTube 95 million times (Snell). ... Rapper Busta Rhymes displays this when he said, "Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. ...

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When Rhythm and Blues music first began, essentially all of the artists were African American, as was the audience receiving the music. In a white-dominated society, these artists found it difficult to spread their blend of soulful vocals and hip-hop beats to a large audience . Because of this societal segregation, R&B music remained "Black" music for many years. As white society slowly became acquainted with Rhythm and Blues, and consequently the music was exposed to a larger audience, R&B exploded onto the music scene. Zondra Hughes, in her EBONY article Are Whites Stealing Rhythm and Bl...

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"Yah-de-da- and the "Slippery Hank- were the first two songs produced by this band, which went straight on a new record that became notably loud in the society. ... There are various things that can still be done to make tuba better sounding, or more applicable to modern teenager music styles such as rap and Rhythm and Blues....

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Together, they recorded some of the first true bebop style songs, for example "Now's the time." ... Miles Davis died of a stroke in 1991, at the age of sixty-five, he was working on a new album with several young, black rappers that became known as "Doo Bop" when it was released in 1992. ...

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