To browse Academia. The article develops the notion of the transnational and multilingual feature song TMFS , in which rappers feature guest rappers performing in a different language and often located in a different country.
It theorizes the TMFS as a musical-literary form of German and European rap music that emerged from early hip-hop's performance practices and through which rappers perform hip-hop communities under the conditions of the genre's globalization and technological reproducibility. The TMFS allows for an examination of the "multidirectionality" Nitzsche of global hip-hop based on a specific musical-literary form.
Social Identities, V olum e 3, N um ber 3, The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate, if possible, whether there is any relation between rap and African-American music.
That is to say, if rap directly comes from the music that the first slaves to arrive in North American soil brought with them. For this, characteristics of African music will be first reviewed.
After that, a study will be done about the ways that this kind of music lived with the one that predominated at that time among the inhabitants of the emerging United States of America — the majority of them being whites —, as it was deeply bound to religion. Following that, there will be a discussion about whether the latter had any influence on the music of slaves in order for this to survive. With the passing of time, a blend between African and American cultures derived in what we know as African-American culture.
