每日背誦第四期91
Hip-hop has its roots in the African traditions of percussion and oral storytelling. Its modern origins, however, can be found in New York City’s crime-ridden South Bronx in the early 1970s. Fed up with the insipid disco of the times, youth who were short on money but rich in ingenuity created a new, dynamic art form: verbally competing and chronicling life in the ghetto by rapping poetry over a beat.
嘻哈文化起源于非洲傳統(tǒng)的打擊樂和口述故事。然而，現(xiàn)代嘻哈則是70年代初期來源于紐約市犯罪行為猖獗的南布朗克斯區(qū)。那些口袋空空卻富于創(chuàng)新的年輕人，厭倦了當(dāng)時(shí)流行的乏味的迪斯科音樂，便創(chuàng)造出了一種新的動(dòng)感十足的藝術(shù)形式：通過配合節(jié)奏念詞的方式，在言辭上相互較量，并且記錄了貧民區(qū)的生活。
(短文節(jié)選,本篇始于：所向披靡嘻哈風(fēng))
