Domestication of Hip-Hop Music in China: Innovations and Similarity

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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_65How to use a DOI?

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Hip Hop Music; Chinese music; Culture domestication; music integration

Abstract

Arrived in 1993, hip-hop in China had been though two staged (1993 to 2000 and 2001 to 2013) as it is currently entering stage three (2014 to present). This paper illustrates the similarity and differences between Chinese hip-hop music and western hip-hop music (mainly American hip-hop) and examines hip-hop music’s domestication in China in terms of adaptations of western music industry pattern and innovations in musicality. The study is based on anthropological field research with hip-hop artists, music producers and hip-hop enthusiasts in China. The paper underscores the indigenous hip-hop music techniques that create a unique Chineseness, including flow arrangement and rhyming pattern produced in the process of assimilation and domestication.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhenjie Wu
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/02/13
TI  - Domestication of Hip-Hop Music in China: Innovations and Similarity
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 508
EP  - 520
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_65
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_65
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