Run DMC "Run DMC is arguably the greatest group in hip-hop history." The opening statement of Run DMC's official website biography says. This group of three forever changed the hip-hop scene. All three, Darryl McDaniel, Joseph Simmons, and Jason Mizell, became the first hip-ho...

House Music The origins of House music trace back to the 1980's, following a trail that reaches the Atlantic ocean, the Mediterranean dance floors of Ibiza, finds it's way into the backdoors of New York's recording studios, and includes V.I.P. passes to the clubs of Chicago and Londo...

Duke Ellington and the Harlem Renaissance: The term Harlem Renaissance refers to an artistic, cultural, and social time of writing about race and the African American's place in American life during the early 1920's and 1930's. It is hard to put a specific time and date in terms ...

Hip-Hop:The Marketing of a New CultureByVictoria HershEnglish 110Professor Vericker1 May 2000Hersh iOutlineThesis: Hip-Hop's has lost its original goal of wanting to unite people, today it's a way to market violence.I. Hip-Hop started in the west Bronx in the early 1970s.A. Hip-Hop wasn't excepted m...

As an art form, hip-hop is a very young phenomenon. Originating in the South Bronx in the late 70's/early 80's, hip-hop itself is only ca. 20 years old. However, despite it's recent founding, it has become a tremendous influence on American culture and global culture as well. It has been a creati...