7 Sep 2011

Arts - Hip Hop goes pop

From Nights, 8:45 pm on 7 September 2011

Ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke from the University of Auckland on the musical genre that developed as part of hip hop culture, and is defined by four key stylistic elements: rapping, DJing/scratching, sampling, and beatboxing, the phase of rap where it became "pop" in the mid 1980s.