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Rap music originated from African American musical traditions and Caribbean influence in New York City
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Multiple scholarly and reference sources confirm that rap music and hip-hop culture originated in New York City (specifically the Bronx) drawing heavily from African-American and Caribbean musical and cultural traditions.

Evidence for · 3
OpenAIRE: Beats of the Ancients: The Global Journey of Rhythm and Resistance
2016 · cited by 0
Notes rap music evolved in the Bronx with roots in African traditions and Caribbean rhythm.
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OpenAIRE: Hip-hop Culture
2015 · cited by 0
States hip-hop manifested in New York City's South Bronx, emerging from African-American, Latino, and Afro-Caribbean forms.
OpenAIRE: HipHop als kreativer Ausdruck generationeller und ethnischer Identität
2003 · cited by 0
States hip hop arose in New York (South Bronx) negotiating experiences within African-American and Caribbean history.
Everything we examined (24)
  1. Wikipedia: New York Cityreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  2. Wikipedia: Music genrereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. Wikipedia: African-American musicreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. Book: Encyclopedia of Latino Culturereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Book: Hip-Hop in Africareferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  6. Book: The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicityreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. Book: Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culturereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Book: A Companion to Latina/o Studiesreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  9. Book: Multicultural Perspectives in Music Educationreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Book: Hip Hop Undergroundreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Book: Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and Historyreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  12. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Latin American Philosophyreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  13. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Latin American Feminismreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  14. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Latin American Philosophy: Metaphilosophical Foundationsreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  15. Continuum: Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the worldreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  16. Distributed to the music trade in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard: All music guide to the blues : the definitive guide to the bluesreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  17. Wikisource: The Nuttall Encyclopædia/Creferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  18. Wikisource: Marathon speech against ObamaCarereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  19. OpenAIRE: Beats of the Ancients: The Global Journey of Rhythm and Resistancepeer-reviewedsupports
  20. OpenAIRE: The Global Influence of Rap From Africa to the Worldpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  21. OpenAIRE: Hip-hop Culturepeer-reviewedsupports
  22. OpenAIRE: HipHop als kreativer Ausdruck generationeller und ethnischer Identitätpeer-reviewedsupports
  23. OpenAIRE: The New Masters of Eloquence: Southernness, Senegal, and Transatlantic Hip-Hop Mobilitiespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  24. OpenAIRE: A Dream Deported: Race, Crime, and Deportation in Transnational Haiti (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant)peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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