Research in to music Genre

HISTORY –

Music is art form whose medium is sound and silence. Common elements of music are pitch, rhythm, dynamics and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. The roots of spoken hip-hop music are found in African-American music and ultimately African music, particularly that of the griots (west African storyteller) of West African culture.

DAPPY

Dappy’s career started in N-Dubz but in 2007 he released a song called ‘love For My Slum’ with fellow UK rap Artist Baker trouble. This was number one on channel U (now channel AKA) for several weeks and it was a big hit in the underground urban scene. The real question is how do you go from street grime to mainstream hip pop. When looking Dappy interviews he said ‘No Regrets’ had many reason and he had to do because he was sick people stereotyping as a ‘Bad Boy’ and that he is just self reflecting (hence looking in the mirror and not recognizing himself) and showing he is just human and there no point crying over yesterday he also said he wanted to do something different and “Epic”.

HIP POP TYPICALS

Most artists would say they have individual typicals when on stage and but if you ask the audience they will say that most are similar this is because the energy they are trying to create is the same. Which is ‘hype’ and making audience go wild and want to sing along explaining why so many artist put their mike to the audience encouraging them to sing-along in our piece Kane does something similar he points to the camera is trying to make the audience feel as if he talking directly to them. There also stereotypes that are often fulfilled like sagging pants this happens very often so we also included it in ours, also seen especially by tinie tempah when jumping round stage Kane does this at the beginning when he kicks and creates the dust effect. All these different things are typical and are also expected and required because if done well you are almost a good artists you just need to focus on your singing or rapping after that but they are crucial for performing.

Posted by Kane Allen