【标题】论本土化过程中嘻哈文化的流行 【作者】何艺辉
【关键词】嘻哈文化；本土化；流行；影响 【指导老师】程 琼 向 俊 【专业】英语
【正文】
I. Introduction Hip Hop is the latest musical genre to capture the attention and imaginations of Chinese youth and has become an integral part of popular music culture. Hip Hop began in the South Bronx borough of New York City in the late 1970s. What is hip hop?
Lots of people may be not to describe hip hop in Chinese. Some people may be describe Hip Hop which is madly loved by young people, is strange, weird and monstrous and can’t be accept by themseves. The devotee of Hip Hop may not describe Hip Hop in Chinese even in language.
“You can’t really define Hip Hop. I am a dancer but I am still Hip Hop. He is a DJ but he is still Hip Hop. Anyone who loves Hip Hop is Hip Hop. Hip Hop is a concept, an idea. It’s something you do, but it’s also something you live.” – Gao Bo, interview with Angela Diane Steele September 4, 2005
Five elements originally defined Hip Hop – DJ, Bboy, MC, Graffiti Art, and Knowledge. DJs spun the records, MCs rapped over the music, Bboys danced to the beats, and Graffiti Artists bombed city walls and subway trains. Knowledge was created and spread through Hip Hop music and art. The most known extended elements are beatboxing, Hip Hop fashion, Hip Hop slang. Knowledge was created and spread through Hip Hop music and art. Hip Hop has since grown to describe a type of fashion, literary style, cinematic genre, journalism, lifestyle, ideology, activism, and scholarship. Hip Hop’s creativity, flexibility, accessibility, and rebelliousness appeal to youth and members of marginalized communities around the world. Hip Hop has become a growing cultural force in China. From urban hipsters spending their nights in the clubs dancing and drinking to the sounds of Hip Hop, to Bboys sweating out their days perfecting power moves in the studio, the seeds of Hip Hop culture are sprouting throughout most of China. Hip Hop is not yet widely understood by the all people and is most influential among Chinese youth. A small number of casual consumers and cultural producers create, support, and maintain Hip Hop culture. Despite its fledgling status, Hip Hop has already influenced popular music, youth fashion, entertainment culture, and
corporate marketing. The development of Hip Hop culture in Shanghai is representative of the ways in which Hip Hop has taken root in other Chinese cities.
II . The Formation of Hip Hop Culture in China
This part the author will mainly talk about the history of Hip Hop culture and the causes of Hip Hop culture introduced into China. The anthor will also talk the new stlye Hip Hop recently in China. A. The Causes of Hip Hop Culture Introduced into China
This subsection the author mainly talk about the causes of Hip Hop culture introduced into China, and I will support my points by three reasons. This part the author will talk about some cause of Hip Hop culture introduced into China and some characteristics of China.
Firstly, with approximately one-fifth of the world’s population, one of the fastest growing economies, and ambitions to be a major power in global politics, China is one of the most dynamic countries in Asia. The People’s Republic of China was established under the rule of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party in 1949. The three decades following saw China isolated by foreign nations and fraught with political and natural disasters. With the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 and the ascent of Deng Xiaoping, China embarked on a new path. Deng Xiaoping passed the policies of reform and opening to the outside world in 1978. This invited direct foreign investment and jump-started Chinese economy. The intersection of economy, politics, education, and popular culture is easily explored in China.
Hip Hop in China emerged around the year 2000, but its roots stretch back to the late 1980s. Chinese first contact with Hip Hop culture came from early Hip Hop movies such as Wild Style (1982) and Breakin’ (1984). Copies of the movies often entered China via trade and travel with Japan and Hong Kong. In 1984, the first wave of Hip Hop received wide attention from society, and major media reported the new Hip Hop. President Ronald Reagan were also watching the break dance. Only in 1984, seven movie have come out about break dance. The peak of break dance happened in Closing Ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games. When Lionel Riche wee singing one night, 200 dancers were dancing break dance and some dancers were playing head spin which was difficult movements in it, many people in front of TV set were watching this exciting scene.
Secondly, China is a tolerant country. Buddhism, Islamism and Christianity were spread to China at different times, which, instead of being banned, had been integrated with the Chinese culture. Buddhism, Islamism and Christianity, which are foreigns culture, can spread to China, not excepting Hip Hop culture. Especially Buddhism, which deeply influence China and become the integral parts of chineses culture. Although Hip Hop now is deemed to be subculture in China, Hip Hop culture will be widely accepted and also develop into an integral part of Chinese culture one day.
Thirdly, new technologies widely put to use which is easily broadcast new things, especially the invention of TV set, movie, radio, computer and so on. People can understand outer world even at home. Most Hip Hop artists and fans in China remember when, where, why and how they first encountered Hip Hop culture. Some speak of their first contact with Hip Hop as a life-altering moment and others as an event of little consequence. All stories revolve around three themes, migration, media, and technology. At that time, video recorder just was introducted into China. The relative Hip Hop of video tape through various channels come to chinese youny people, and the center of Hip Hop in China is the youny man whoes family have vedio recorder. The growth of Internet technology has enabled information about Hip Hop culture to rapidly cross international borders and has been vital to the proliferation of Hip Hop in China. For the past decade the Internet has been an essential force in the delineation and mapping of the virtual hip-hop nation and is now the primary way in which information about Hip Hop is transmitted and received. The Internet has given Hip Hop “infinite repeatability” and both constitutes and also disperses new meanings surrounding Hip Hop culture to a “global public”. For example Hip Hop can be associated with being technologically savvy or available for mass consumption. Home to all things Hip Hop, 51555.net contains
announcements, chats, music and video downloads, and links to other Hip Hop sites. The Internet connects Chinese Hip Hoppers to artists and fans elsewhere in China as well as around the world. B. Localization and Popularity
This section the author will talk about the history, localization and popularity of Hip Hop in China.
1. The History of Hip Hop Culture in China
This part the author will talk about the hostory Hip Hop Culture in China. Harlem Yu (庾澄庆) sang the first Chinese rap song in the early 80s which was parallel to the early rap songs. In the early 90s L.A. Boyz（洛城三兄弟）brought Hip Hop scenes of the 90s from the United States to Taiwan which then started the trend that spreads into Taiwan and the rest of Mandarin speaking region. The early Taiwan youth rap group like The Party were participate underground and mainstream. In the late 90s Softhard (软件天师) and LMF（大懒堂） in Hong Kong, has participate in Chinese Hip Hop movement but since it was in Cantonese dialect it has not reach that much of publicity in both Taiwan and Mainland China. MC HotDog (哈狗帮), Da Zhi have successfully started the Hip Hop trend that affect Mainland China. Some of the earliest influences of Hip Hop in China came from movies such as Wild Style which was released in 1982, and Breakin’ which was released in 1984. Wild Style is a movie about the tensions between a graffiti writer’s passion for his art and his personal life. However, this plot is not why most people watch the movie and why it had such a big influence on the Hip Hop scene of China. The movie is known as the Hip Hop flick, full
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