rap

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Some of the easiest kinds of dances to learn include cowboy line dancing, basic hip-hop moves, or a Bollywood routine. 

hip-hop | American Dictionary

hip-hop
noun[ U ]
us/ˈhɪpˌhɑp/
a type of popular, African-American music with songs about politics and society, and words spoken rather than sung

Examples of hip-hop

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Or, should we rather say, is liberated by the hip-hop machine?
Until now, scholarship has neglected the music of hip-hop.
As it turns out, hip-hop is doing quite a lot right, particularly in its hidden theoretical assumptions about cultural dynamics.
It is the story of the classical ghost in the hip-hop machine.
The central compositional process of mixing frequently brings a range of diverse music together in the creation of an original piece of hip-hop.
The narrator's shocked response to the disparity between the rapper's persona and personal demeanour is a veiled critique of gender realness in hip-hop.
She refutes the many charges made against hip-hop in a well-researched and reasoned manner.
The most overriding and enduring criticism levied against rap is, of course, sexism; hip-hop has been regarded as a heterosexual, masculine domain.
The fact that only 10% used ready-made loops to make music is questionable, given that two-thirds of the respondents were into electronic music or hip-hop.
Making reference to hip-hop and dance music, he suggested that there are different authenticities for different kinds of popular music.
How is hip-hop culture investigated and to what extent are the researchers involved in these investigations reflexive about their impact on the research findings?
From the mid-1980s through the present, hip-hop culture continues to shape and reflect the values of its audience, particularly teenagers and young adults.
Only one of the team members is female, reflecting the gender bias in this area of hip-hop as a whole.
It verifies how quickly hip-hop trends have changed, as well as reinforces how short 'generations' are in popular music.
This experience has given me the inspiration to look for spoken word poets who illuminate the influence of rap and hip-hop culture on their writing.
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