Rap (Music)
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Rap (Music)
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111437
- info:lc/authorities/sh85111437
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85111437#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Hip-hop music
- Rap (Music)--United States
- Rap songs
- Rappin' (Music)
- Rapping (Music)
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Rapping (Music)
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Watkins, W.H. All you need to know about rappin', c1984: CIP galley (rap songs)
- found: Shaw, A. Dict. of American pop/rock, c1982 (rapping)
- found: Rolling Stone encyc. of rock & roll, c1983 (rap)
- found: New Grove dict. of American music, c1986 (rap)
- found: The source, No. 50 (Nov. 1993): p. 9 (hip-hop music)
- found: New Grove dict. of Amer. music, 1986 (hip-hop: collective term for the black urban art forms ... consisting of break dancing, graffiti art, and rap)
- found: New Grove, 2nd ed. WWW site, Jan. 29, 2001 (rap: predominantly African-American musical style that first gained prominence in the late 1970s; characterized by semi-spoken rhymes declaimed over a rhythmic musical backing, drawn from the sampling of pre-existing recordings and the use of DJ mixing techniques)
LC Classification
Change Notes
- 2001-01-04: new
- 2001-03-19: revised
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