Jamaican Influences inHip Hop Music

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"The purpose of this research is to examine the Jamaican influences on the origins of hip hop music. The plan of the research will be to set forth the popular-culture origins of hip hop in the United States in the South Bronx of New York City, and then to discuss the influences and implications of Jamaican musical style on the development and dissemination of hip hop through American and non-American cultural venues.

The temporal origin of hip hop music, which is largely considered an American phenomenon although its influence has been felt in Europe and Asia, has been identified as the 1970s, and its origin of location as the South Bronx in New York. According to Dimitriadis, hip hop music was a key aspect of a more pervasive cultural innovation that exploited a species of performance art, flamboyant costume, and performer-induced .."

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