... Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summers, and the Bee-Gees. Although this music appealed to everyone, many inner-city teenagers who could not afford the glamorous clothes and expensive entrance fees were excluded from participating in this disco revolution. However, around 1973, several ingenious men from the south ... budding hip-hop world a big boost. Moreover, he helped diversify the range of sounds the rap music covered, mixing sounds from "rock-music recordings and television shows into the standard funk and disco fare" (D"Cook, 3). By using an even more eclectic range, Bambaataa extended the ...

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... phenomenon could be found in the projects of Brooklyn, New York, particularly the Farragut Projects. The DJs (disc jockeys) of the 70's mostly played disco music back then. One DJ by the name of DJ Kool Herc, who emigrated here from Jamaica and settled in the Bronx focused his ... . It was invented by either Grand Master Flash or Grand Wizard Theodore, who were both DJs from the Bronx. Rapping is saying rhymes to the beat of music. It was originally called emceeing. Rap draws its roots from the Jamaican art known as toasting, along with old "dozens" rhymes and jail house jargon passed th...

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