[lbo-talk] White trash

Dwayne Monroe idoru345 at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 24 13:21:07 PST 2004


Yes, rap music is very much an international scene.

This shouldn't surprise. Although common wisdom is that rap is exclusively linked to African oral traditions, there are many other non-African, non-American influences.

In the early 1980's for example, in Detroit, a group of youngsters heard the (then) West German group Kraftwerk's "Trans Europe Express" an early bit of pop electronica. They were particularly impressed by the steady, synthetically produced beat, a dream for a DJ because it gave the audience something to dance to and provided a foundation for overlays and mixing.

You could keep the beat steady even as you improvised and innovated.

Just a small part of the story.

Anyway, even the simplest web search (or open minded exploration of online and / or bricks and mortars music store) shows how much non-American rap music is out there.

Consider...

http://neturn.sinacity.com/store/10_1_292808_1_1_index.html

http://www.uajournal.com/?rev=226

http://www.streethop.com/international/

http://www.rapspot.dk/crsint.htm

...

DRM



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