Description:Chapters: Hong Kong Hip Hop, Sam Lee, Ghost Style, Dan Findlay. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Chinese hip hop (Chinese: pinyin xha) is a relatively new phenomenon; in Chinese music; hip-hop in Beijing emerged around the year 2000, but its roots stretch back to the late 1980s. Some of the earliest influences of hip-hop in Beijing came from movies such as Wild Style (1982) and Breakin' (1984), which arrived via trade and travel with Japan and Hong Kong. The Chinese term for rap is shuchng (Simplified Chinese: literally "narrative," actually the name of a traditional genre of narrative singing). The first Chinese rap song was by Harlem Yu () of Taiwan in the early 80s. In the early 90s L.A. Boyz started a trend that spread into Taiwan the rest of the Chinese speaking world. Early Taiwan youth rap group like The Party and TTM were both underground and mainstream. In the late 90s Hong Kong's Softhard and LMF were influential though their Cantonese dialect was foreign to Mandarin speaking regions, while Taiwan's MC HotDog, Da Xi Men, Da Zhi were more widely intelligible in mainland China. When Eminems movie 8 Mile came out in 2002 the art of freestyling was popularized in China. Movies have played a major role in fostering the growth the hip-hop culture in China; from the music itself to dance, the art of graffiti and style of dress. In the wake of the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989, interest in hip-hop waned as the government attempted to revitalize reverence for traditional Chinese culture and socialism (Steele, 2006) and the government still keeps a tight hold on radio licenses (Trindle, 2007). However, there was considerable uptake of "Dakou CDs" - surplus CDs created in the West that were supposed to be destroyed but were instead smuggl...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1686123We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chinese Hip Hop: Hong Kong Hip Hop, Sam Lee, Ghost Style, Dan Findlay. To get started finding Chinese Hip Hop: Hong Kong Hip Hop, Sam Lee, Ghost Style, Dan Findlay, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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2010
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Chinese Hip Hop: Hong Kong Hip Hop, Sam Lee, Ghost Style, Dan Findlay
Description: Chapters: Hong Kong Hip Hop, Sam Lee, Ghost Style, Dan Findlay. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Chinese hip hop (Chinese: pinyin xha) is a relatively new phenomenon; in Chinese music; hip-hop in Beijing emerged around the year 2000, but its roots stretch back to the late 1980s. Some of the earliest influences of hip-hop in Beijing came from movies such as Wild Style (1982) and Breakin' (1984), which arrived via trade and travel with Japan and Hong Kong. The Chinese term for rap is shuchng (Simplified Chinese: literally "narrative," actually the name of a traditional genre of narrative singing). The first Chinese rap song was by Harlem Yu () of Taiwan in the early 80s. In the early 90s L.A. Boyz started a trend that spread into Taiwan the rest of the Chinese speaking world. Early Taiwan youth rap group like The Party and TTM were both underground and mainstream. In the late 90s Hong Kong's Softhard and LMF were influential though their Cantonese dialect was foreign to Mandarin speaking regions, while Taiwan's MC HotDog, Da Xi Men, Da Zhi were more widely intelligible in mainland China. When Eminems movie 8 Mile came out in 2002 the art of freestyling was popularized in China. Movies have played a major role in fostering the growth the hip-hop culture in China; from the music itself to dance, the art of graffiti and style of dress. In the wake of the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989, interest in hip-hop waned as the government attempted to revitalize reverence for traditional Chinese culture and socialism (Steele, 2006) and the government still keeps a tight hold on radio licenses (Trindle, 2007). However, there was considerable uptake of "Dakou CDs" - surplus CDs created in the West that were supposed to be destroyed but were instead smuggl...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1686123We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chinese Hip Hop: Hong Kong Hip Hop, Sam Lee, Ghost Style, Dan Findlay. To get started finding Chinese Hip Hop: Hong Kong Hip Hop, Sam Lee, Ghost Style, Dan Findlay, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.