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My assignment was to compare(similarities) and contract(differences) Soul music and Hip Hop music... here is the article that the teacher has provided the class with....


    Although soul and hip-hop both spring from African-American roots, they are very different musical expressions. Soul music borrows from gospel and rhythm and blues. The singer's voice, backed up by live instruments, soars with emotions, with soul. The music captures the optimism of its time-the civil rights movement of the 1960s and hope for social change. There are two types of soul- the detroit style of the Supremes, Stevie wonder, and the Temptations and the more gritty, gospel-driven Memphis style of Otis Redding and Booker T and the MGs. Soul music is upbeat and often joyful; its subjects are love and affirmation of the human condition. On the other hand, hiphop (or rap) draws on hard raock, funk, and techno. The rapper chants rhymes against a driving instrumental background that may be prerecorded. Rap grew out of the New York ghettos in the late 1970s and the 1980s, when crack and guns flooded "the hood' and many dreams seemed broken. Of the rival East and West Coast rappers, New Yorkers include Grandmaster Flesh, LL Cool J, and the murdered Biggies Smalls, while Los Angeles rappers include Ice Cube and the murdered Tupac Shakur. The Subjects of hip-hop are racism, crime, and poverty. Both soul and hip-hop claim to "tell it like it is." Hip-hop's answer to the soulful Four Tops is the Furious Four. What's in a name? perhaps the way the listener experiences reality.

                                                -Maurice Bosco (student)




Soul...

Influence- gospel/R&B
Structure- Intrumentals/emotional vocals
Types- detroit/memphis
subject- Human conditions


Hip-Hop...

Influence- hard rock/funk/techno
Structure- prerecorded/back chants
types- east/west
subject- racism/crime/poverity


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