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In the 1940's the most popular form of music was known as "big band" music. Benny Goodman is one well known practitioner of the art
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Rap music's creation was influenced by West African griot music and Jamaican "toasting" traditions. Griot is a form of praise singing, and toasting is a form of talking over a rhythm
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it began with the street parties that were thrown in the Bronx area of New York. The mastermind behind it was Kool Herc, a Jamaican expatriate and his friends. They did it in the 70's. In this parties, there used to be a Master of Ceremonies (MC) ,who usually got on the stage with the DJ and shouted encouragements to the crown. This practice of shouting became known as toasting. This practice later became Rapping.
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Grandmaster Flash is the artist who turned plain turntables into a musical instrument that helped change music forever. Flash helped start the hip hop scene in the 1970s
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uring the 1980s, rap became popular with mainstream music audiences thanks to acts such as Run-DMC, Salt-N-Pepa and MC Hammer. Other influential rap performers include Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot, Queen Latifah, Black Eyed Peas and even young rappers like Bow Wow and Lil' Romeo.
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