o we have the inception dates of music styles/genres generally?
We can tell you the rock and roll era emerged in the U.S. in the early to mid-1950s. Wikipedia says: "In 1951, Cleveland-based disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this music style while popularizing the term "rock and roll" on mainstream radio."
And Jazz? While one article says late 19th to early 20th centuries, another says 1819 in Congo Square in New Orleans where slaves gathered on Sundays.
Hip Hop has an actual birth date: "On August 11, 1973, Clive and Cindy Campbell threw a party in their apartment building in the Bronx, New York. DJ Kool Herc's beats that evening marked the birth of hip-hop. In 1973, the Bronx in New York City was one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in the United States." And the actual address is known too: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue.
And it is a big news story. From Wikipedia: "It has also been argued that rap music formed as a "cultural response to historic oppression and racism, a system for communication among black communities throughout the United States". This is due to the fact that hip hop culture reflected the social, economic, and political realities of the disenfranchised youth." So hip hop is important socially.
Snd there are lots of hip hop jokes -
I will never give Hip Hop to my friends for Christmas again... Every time they open their presents, they immediately trash the 'rappers!
Albert Einstein was a musician throughout his life. He had a phase where he experimented with hip hop. His rapper name was MC squared
What do frogs and rabbits have in common? They both like hip hop.
I am in a watercolour class and this was the topic a few weeks ago.
