W O R L D WA R I ( P O E T R Y )

THE EVOLUTION OF HIP-HOP

Group Project:

Rihab Ata
Raghid Aliwi

Ahmed Natour
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FRANCE GERMANY
W O R L D WA R I BRITAIN AUSTRIO-
HUNGARIAN
 I. Cultural impact:
RUSSIA ITALY
 •unprecedented military violence
+colonies  +Ottoman Empire
 •10 million deaths
+colonies
 •Artistic interpretation - a symptom of the apocalyptic nature of modernity
 •Legitimated the mood of cultural pessimism that permeated the epoch
 I. Figure 1: 
Europe in 1914 was divided into a fairly small number of countries . The ottoman empire still ruled most of the middle east. German and Italian
reunification was still a recent event. Within this small number of countries, many territories ruled against the consent of local populations (Poland,
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bosnia, Ireland, The Baltic countries, The Alsace-Lorraine region).
 II. Military alliances in 1914: 

It started when Gavrilo Princip ( A Bosnian student in a Serbian Nationalist

movement ) assassinated Archude Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrio-
Hungarian empire during the Prince’s visit to Sarajeo.
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  Patriotism, Call to arms; The Romanticising of War 

  Some WWI art had propagandistic value and was targeted at Conservative, prowar audiences      
( Posters, Poems, Photographs)
  Modernistic endorsement 
  A few modernist artists celebrated the war as a glamorous spectacle of the machine age.
  Humanistic rejection
  Many of the artists and writers still celebrated today are those who came to oppose the war, who
expressed compassion with its victims, and who denounced patriotic propaganda ( Siegfried
Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Otto Dix)
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 •Poetry was the predominant body of war literature
 •A few war poets ( Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon) were junior officers with upper-middle class education.
 •Several English war poets ( Rupert Brooke, Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Edmund Blunden) belonged to a
literary movement Georgian Poetry named after the King George V.
 •The term Georgian acquired a derogatory connotation as the Georgian poets were regarded as too
traditionalistic by modernists such as Ezra Pound and T.S. Elliot.
 •Eduard Thomas studied History at Oxford.
 •Wilfred Owen came from an African background. He taught Eng. Before WWI.
 •He was thoroughly shocked by the war. He was repatriated to an Edinburgh hospital , where he met Siegfried
Sassoon. Sassoon was a Georgian poet.
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 The anesthetization of war:
 •Turning cruelty of war into an object of beauty
 •Praising gestures of those who die for their country
 •i.e. poems, such as Rupert Brooke ‘s war sonnets, that are of high aesthetic value.
 The destruction of Nature:
 •Many war poems reflected upon the destruction of nature inflicted by constant bombardment on the battlefield.
 •The roads and the church are barely visible
 •All neighbouring field are pockmarked with shell craters.
 The war as enduring trauma
 •Many texts by war poets ( Sassoon’s “the rank stench of those bodies haunts me still”) allude to what we now call PTSD or to the other enduring Traumas
inflicted by the war
 War victims were a common sight in the 1920s and the 1930s
 •Freud discusses cases of war veterans suffering from recurring nightmares
 •He offers one of the first theoretical discussions of PTSD
 •Modernism integrated this pessimism in its general vision of art.
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 •“Origins: Early hip-hop music saw its roots in the 1970s in the New York City borough
of the Bronx. It started as a collaboration among intersecting groups of Black, Latinx, and
Caribbean American youth at block parties—community gatherings that featured DJs playing
soul and funk music.” *
Hip-Hop Music Guide: History of Hip-Hop and Notable Artists
https://www.masterclass.com › articles › hip-hop-guide  *
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 •1. The break: Short for “break down,” the break is the part of a song that highlights its rhythmic underpinning. This became the
foundation of Kool Herc’s DJing style as he blended two breaks together in an extended loop.
 • 2. Breaking: The dance element of hip-hop, performed by dancers called B-Girls or B-Boys. Birthed in the late 1970s in New York,
breaking blended movement styles such as jazz and martial arts with dance styles from the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa. B-Girls
and B-Boys got their name because they danced over the DJ’s “breaks” at hip-hop parties in the Bronx.
 • 3. DJ: The DJ existed before hip-hop. It’s an acronym for the word disc jockey. Originally, the DJ’s job was to play recorded music for
an audience either on radio or live for an audience. But the hip-hop DJ took it to the next level by making record spinning into an art
form called turntablism. 
 •4. Emcee: an acronym for the Master of Ceremonies. Emcees began as hosts at hip-hop parties who would prompt the breakers to
dance. Influenced by original spoken-word artists, emcees began to do rhythmic call-and-response with the audience, a technique that
eventually morphed into the poetic form of rapping that we know now.
 • 5. Freestyle: the improvisational wing of emceeing. Originally found as a written verse that has no specific topic, the hip-hop definition
of freestyle emerged with Myka 9 of Freestyle Fellowship as a rap or rhyme created in the moment or “off the top of the head.” 
 *https://www.bam.org/media/5500824/Elements_of_Hip-hop.pdf*
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- both were written with lyrics, rhythm and rhyme.

- both were written with specific emotion, and each lyric had its own backstory.
- both were started at difficult times. (e.g. war poetry was started during the first world
war, while hip-hop started after the destruction of the Bronx.)
- both had a powerful influence on people, hip-hop made Africans prouder of their
culture, while war poetry taught people about how it affected soldiers' mental health. 
- both turned cruelty of the real world into an object of beauty.
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  Hip-Hop is a musical-verbal art and poetry is a verbal-musical-typographical one. *https

://www.theamericanconservative.com › prufrock 

 Relatively few contemporary poets use patterned rhyme; almost all view rhyme as optional, if
not unappealing. In contrast, very few hip hop artists do not rhyme. Sharpening the
distinction, hip hop artists revel in the most audacious rhymes, the cobbling together of
diverse material.* https://www.owu.edu › news-media › from-our-perspective
 Deeper feelings and emotions are conveyed in poems, whereas songs are more direct and
lighter in meaning. Poetry is an expression of inner experiences of a poet, whereas song is
often set to a pre-existing piece of music. Songs are dependent upon selection of lyrics and
music as well as the singer. *https://www.differencebetween.com 
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