Hip Hop in Africa: Cultural Roots and an Expressive Form of the Youths

Hip Hop in Africa: Cultural Roots and an Expressive Form of the Youths

Presenters: Msia Clark and Isaac Kalumbu

African concepts of community and the functional role of music in society, along with formal musical structures and aesthetics were maintained by communities of blacks that were formed in the Americas since the beginning of the enslavement of African peoples. These cultural roots spurned many different…

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