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- Icon Collective - Hip Hop History: From the Streets to the Mainstream
- The Kennedy Center - Hip Hop: A Culture of Vision and Voice
- LiveAbout - The History of Hip-Hop: 1925 to Now
- PBS - Independent Lens - Hip-Hop
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- Carnegiee Hall - Timeline of African American Music - History of Rap & Hip-Hop
- BlackPast.org - Rap/Hip Hop
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hip-hop, cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and ’90s; also, the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement’s most lasting and influential art form. Although widely considered a synonym for rap music, the term hip-hop refers to a complex culture comprising four elements: deejaying, or “turntabling”; rapping, also known as “MCing” or “rhyming”; graffiti painting, also known as “graf” or “writing”; and “B-boying,” which encompasses hip-hop dance, style, and attitude, along with the sort of virile body language that philosopher Cornel West described as “postural semantics.” (A fifth ...(100 of 2156 words)