| LC control no. | gf2014027037 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Rap (Music) |
| Variant(s) | Rap songs Rappin' (Music) Rapping (Music) |
| See also | Popular music Hip-hop (Music) |
| Scope 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) |
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