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From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture
This dance vibe – in which ... established an aesthetic that resonated far beyond New York City. Music videos on MTV gave hip-hop a new medium for storytelling, while films like “Beat Street ...
Business Insider5y
Why today's country music looks and sounds like hip-hop
And dance moves like this ... country artists have strategic reasons to embrace hip-hop sounds and aesthetics. Country's drift toward hip-hop started in the late 2000s with the wave of so-called ...
PBS7y
1997 | Mo Money Mo Problems by Notorious B.I.G.
a polished and futuristic aesthetic that reintroduced hip-hop to its origins in R&B, funk, and dance music like disco. In this sense, Bad Boy put a twist on New York boom bap — the onomatopoetic ...
Atlanta Magazine3d
How Atlanta and Japan influence each other’s hip-hop scenes
Japan boasts the second-largest music market in the world, valued at more than $2 billion. Even in a booming industry crowded ...
The New York Times13d
From London, Cycles of Hip-Hop Enlightenment, and Entertainment Too
By Brian Seibert The dancers of Boy Blue, a London hip-hop dance company ... The theater part has tilted dark and dramatic, with an aesthetic on the dystopian end of Afrofuturism and an emphasis ...
The Miami Times11d
From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture
There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...