05/11/2015

1Xtra BBC

1Xtra BBC

1Xtra BBC live broadcasting from UK.  1Xtra BBC broadcast online 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 1Xtra BBC brings you the friendly voices of the community plus a wide range of music, including classical, contemporary, jazz and country. As a community station, Thay also have programs for ethnic communities (German, Welsh, Irish and Spanish), Aboriginal programs, religious programs, sport, local news and interviews etc.

Hip hop or hip-hop is a sub-cultural movement that formed during the early 1970s largely by African-American and Puerto Rican youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City. It became popular outside of the African-American community in the late 1980s and by the 2000s became the most listened-to musical genre in the world.It is characterized by four distinct elements, all of which represent the different manifestations of the culture: rap music (oral), turntablism or DJing (aural), b-boying (physical) and graffiti art (visual). Even while it continues to develop globally in myriad styles, these four foundational elements provide coherence to hip hop culture. The term is often used in a restrictive fashion as synonymous only with the oral practice of rap music.

The origin of the hip hop culture stems from the block parties of the Ghetto Brothers, when they plugged in the amplifiers for their instruments and speakers into the lampposts on 163rd Street and Prospect Avenue and used music to break down racial barriers, and from DJ Kool Hercat 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, where Herc mixed samples of existing records with his own shouts to the crowd and dancers. Kool Herc is credited as the “father” of hip hop. DJ Afrika Bambaataa of the hip hop collective Zulu Nation outlined the pillars of hip hop culture, to which he coined the terms: MCing or “Emceein”, DJing or “Deejayin”, B-boying and graffiti writing or “Aerosol Writin”

Radio Information:

Location: UK

Language: English

Genres: Hip Hop

Web Site: www.bbc.co.uk