| LC control no. | sh 85111437 |
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| LC classification | ML3531 History and criticism |
| Topical heading | Rap (Music) |
| Variant(s) | Hip-hop music Rap (Music)--United States Rap songs Rappin' (Music) Rapping (Music) |
| See also | headings for music of individual instruments followed by the qualifier "(Rap)" and the subdivisions Methods (Rap) and Studies and exercises (Rap) under individual musical instruments and families of instruments African Americans--Music Monologues with music Popular music Trip hop (Music) |
| 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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