MATT MAson
BROADSIDE
I heard Jeff Chang, author of ‘Can’t Stop Won’t Stop,’ speaking at bookstore event last week. He raised a question which I thought might do well on Dissensus. In a nutshell, he asked “why has nothing replaced hip hop?”
Popular black music in the US has reinvented itself at least once a decade for a long time, in the 50s there was R&B, 60s - Rock & Roll, 70s - Disco, 80s - Hip Hop. But the 90s there was nothing to replace hip hop, and it doesn’t seem like anything else is on the way anytime soon (from within the US at least, several people in the audience started shouting out that grime/baille funk etc would replace hip hop, which was interesting).
Obviously this simplifies things a bit (hip hop kicked off in the early 70s etc) but essentially I thought it was a good point, and an interesting question with several answers which the esteemed fellows of this board may want to grapple with.
Ladies and Gentlemen: The floor is yours…
Popular black music in the US has reinvented itself at least once a decade for a long time, in the 50s there was R&B, 60s - Rock & Roll, 70s - Disco, 80s - Hip Hop. But the 90s there was nothing to replace hip hop, and it doesn’t seem like anything else is on the way anytime soon (from within the US at least, several people in the audience started shouting out that grime/baille funk etc would replace hip hop, which was interesting).
Obviously this simplifies things a bit (hip hop kicked off in the early 70s etc) but essentially I thought it was a good point, and an interesting question with several answers which the esteemed fellows of this board may want to grapple with.
Ladies and Gentlemen: The floor is yours…