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- It took less than a decade for hip-hop to start taking a hold of New Orleans. “I think hip-hop culture began to really establish itself in New Orleans around ’82,” says Mia X.
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Aug 4, 2023 · On June 11, 1864, Black New Orleanians paraded through their city, cheering, singing and strutting. Though the Civil War was still raging, the throngs recognized the minor victory in Louisiana, a...
Oct 28, 2023 · With its call-and-response references to local neighborhoods, their song “Buck Jump Time” became an early New Orleans hip-hop hit. As the ’80s became the ’90s, the New Orleans...
Sep 11, 2023 · Other labels and artists followed, and when hip-hop exploded onto the mainstream with East and West Coast rappers, it took New Orleans developing its own unique sound before its artists hit the big time. "Bounce music is the foundation of New Orleans. …
- Introduction
- Rap and Place
- The Rap Map Unfolds
- Rap Scenes and Styles of The South
- Marketing The South
- Dirtiness Defined
- Dirtiness in Southern Rap and Beyond
- Get Crunk, Tear The Club Up
- Visual Culture of The Dirty South
- Conclusion
Introduced in a 1995 song by the Atlanta-based group Goodie Mob, the idea of the "Dirty South" spread quickly throughout the rap music subculture and industry, and by the early years of the twenty-first century moved into more general usage in a variety of contexts not directly related to rap. The concept of the Dirty South as elaborated by the Goo...
Perhaps the most remarkable dimension of the Dirty South phenomenon is the way it brings to the fore paradoxical and contradictory ideas about the relationship between music and place. For some scholars, this relationship is more or less "organic" — the stylistic differences between music produced in different places are unavoidable outgrowths of d...
From its beginnings in New York's neighborhoods, rap spread first to other large cities in the northeast, then jumped across the continent to southern California, for reasons that had much more to do with the preexisting structure of the music industry than with any sort of monopoly on talent held by the California-based rappers and producers who e...
For all of its novelty in the areas of vocal performance, narrative voice, and musical backing, rap was strongly tied to previous genres of African American music, a fact which helped make the music accessible to Black southern audiences. In addition to sustaining an interest in and a market for "mainstream" rap produced for national audiences, inh...
If we include Miami in "the South" (a move which brings traditional geographical and historical definitions of the South into question) people had been rapping, DJing, and releasing records in this part of the country for almost two decades before the idea of "southern rap" as a category emerged in the mid-1990s. Prior to that time, any artist or g...
For music critics and journalists, the "Dirty South" became shorthand for the growing numbers of rap artists from the former Confederate states. Sometimes appearing as a geographical referent, at other times the Dirty South described a genre of music. On the website allmusic.com in 2008, the Dirty-South-as-genre appeared as "a stoned, violent, sex-...
Within rap culture, the utility and adaptability of the Dirty South popularized by Goodie Mob became evident in the various ways that ideas or images of dirt and dirtiness continued to proliferate in artist names as well as album and song titles. The debut album from a Mississippi-based artist named Dirty South was advertised in XXL magazine in ear...
The crunk concept was born in the late 1980s and early 1990s in nightclubs in southern cities like Memphis and Atlanta, as DJs, producers and artists strove to produce the kind of music appropriate to a rowdy, collective, and embodied experience. Before it became a rap subgenre, crunk's meaning evoked a high level of crowd energy and enthusiasm. In...
"In the field of representational politics," writes Katherine Henninger, "that is, the ongoing contest to assert what can and cannot be represented in a given culture — visual representations have played, and continue to play, an extraordinarily complicated, nuanced role in the South."109Katherine Henninger, Ordering the Facade: Photography and Con...
What is at stake in the creation of imagined spaces of rap? Or an imagined South? Spatial imaginaries arise, already connected with material concerns and economic struggles. A shift in imagining the geography of rap opens possibilities to new participants. Imagined in a different way, the economic, material, and cultural resources of the South, onc...
Feb 3, 2023 · Published. February 3, 2023. Courtesy of Julian Lombard and Josh Henderson. The genre of Hip-Hop/Rap dates back to the mid-1970s. Others claim that the genre goes back to early gospel music and rock. Hip-hop has not only become an American Staple but a cultural phenomenon as well.
Aug 15, 2023 · Taylor Crumpton. | GRAMMYs / Aug 15, 2023 - 07:48 am. For decades, hip-hop was regulated to New York, even though its musical stylings traveled to neighboring cities such as Boston and Philadelphia. In those cities, hip-hop was a cultural production of the city’s individual sound and history, rather than that of an entire region.
Jul 22, 2021 · Bounce can be traced back to 1991 when the efforts of rappers and DJs working in small nightclubs and block parties brought a new life to New Orleans’ own brand of hip-hop. Bounce was popularized at a club called Ghost Town by MC T Tucker.