History 2132A/B Chapter 1-8: Hip-The-History..
7 Feb 2017
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Chapter 1: in the beginning there was rhythm. What differentiated america from europe was the presence of africans, and the coexistence of two very different populations in a new country with undefined boundaries. Without the africans, there is no hip there is no hip without african americans and european americans, inventing new identities for themselves as. America took shape across an improvised chasm of race. The black and white foreigners taught each other how to talk, eat, sing, worship and celebrate: customs passed back and forth. The two earliest forms of hip emerged due to this relationship: blackface minstrelsy (america"s first popular culture) and the blues, these two forms are the twined root stems of hip; we live among their branches today. Slavery invented the southerner the sense of gentility and apartness as much as the other way around: the early slaves brought a mixed pedigree, not wholly african.
