Details
Genre/form term
Rap (Music)
Use for
Rap songs
Rappin' (Music)
Rapping (Music)
Rappin' (Music)
Rapping (Music)
See also
Popular music
Hip-hop (Music)
Hip-hop (Music)
Note
For rap lyrics that appear without a musical setting see Rap lyrics.
Found in
Work cat.: Watkins, W.H. All you need to know about rappin', c1984: CIP galley (rap songs)
Shaw, A. Dict. of American pop/rock, c1982 (rapping)
Rolling Stone encyc. of rock & roll, c1983 (rap)
New Grove dict. of American music, c1986 (rap)
The source, No. 50 (Nov. 1993): p. 9 (hip-hop music)
New Grove dict. of Amer. music, 1986 (hip-hop: collective term for the black urban art forms ... consisting of break dancing, graffiti art, and rap)
New Grove, 2nd ed. WWW site, Jan. 29, 2001 (rap: predominantly African-American musical style that first gained prominence in the late 1970s; characterized by semi-spoken rhymes declaimed over a rhythmic musical backing, drawn from the sampling of pre-existing recordings and the use of DJ mixing techniques)
Shaw, A. Dict. of American pop/rock, c1982 (rapping)
Rolling Stone encyc. of rock & roll, c1983 (rap)
New Grove dict. of American music, c1986 (rap)
The source, No. 50 (Nov. 1993): p. 9 (hip-hop music)
New Grove dict. of Amer. music, 1986 (hip-hop: collective term for the black urban art forms ... consisting of break dancing, graffiti art, and rap)
New Grove, 2nd ed. WWW site, Jan. 29, 2001 (rap: predominantly African-American musical style that first gained prominence in the late 1970s; characterized by semi-spoken rhymes declaimed over a rhythmic musical backing, drawn from the sampling of pre-existing recordings and the use of DJ mixing techniques)
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