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Title
Hip Hop Collection
Alternative Title
Hip Hop Collection
Description
Around the early 1970s, an underground urban cultural movement began to develop in the South Bronx in New York City, New York. As block parties became increasingly prevalent in the region, disc jockeys (DJs) would play popular musical genres, such as funk, disco, and soul, and began isolating the percussive instrumental breaks of songs. Immigrants from the Caribbean islands introduced this technique, known as dub music. Since the percussive breaks in these songs tended to be short, DJs extended them using two turntables. The movement that would become known as “hip hop” involved four distinct characteristics. In addition to turntablism, which is considered the aural element, the other characteristics include rap music, which is the oral element, b-boying—also known as breakdancing, which is the physical element—and graffiti art, which is the visual element. Other elements include beatboxing, which is a form of vocal percussion using one’s mouth to mimic a drum machine, and sampling, which is the act of taking a portion of a sound recording and reusing it as an instrument. <br /><br />Clive Campbell, known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is credited as the originator of hip hop music in the early 1970s. Although the genre developed in several places in the early 1970s, a concert performed by Herc is considered to be one of the pivotal and formative events that led to the rise of hip hop music and culture. Among those who claimed to be in attendance were a number of future hip hop stars, including Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaaraa, Red Alert, KRS-One, and Grandmaster Caz. <br /><br />In 1979, the Sugarhill Gang’s song, “Rapper’s Delight,” became the first hip hop record to gain widespread popularity in the mainstream. During the 1980s, the genre evolved and developed more complex styles, spreading across the country and throughout the world and leading to what would be known as new school hip hop. This Golden Age hip hop era spanned from around 1983 to the early 1990s, spawning innovators such as LL Cool J, Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy, Eric B. & Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, De La Soul, the Beastie Boys, and Juice Crew. Gangsta rap, a subgenre of hip hop with a lyrical focus on political and social commentary mixed with the realities of a criminal lifestyle, was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Ice T, N.W.A., KRS-One, Just-Ice, Schoolly D, and the Geto Boys. By the early 1990s, gangsta rap further split into regional genres when West Coast rappers such as Ice Cube, Eazy E, Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Warren G, Nate Dog, and 2Pac Shakur squared off against their East Coast counterparts, such as the Notorious B.I.G. (also known as Biggie Smalls), Puff Daddy, Lil’ Kim, the Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, and Nas. After the murders of Shakur and Smalls, gangsta rap peaked in its popularity, paving the way for mainstream rappers like Jay-Z, DMX, 50 Cent, Eminem, Nelly, and Drake. Mainstream rap has been criticized by hip hop fans and pioneers for its concern with image over substance, as opposed to alternative hip hop, which emerged simultaneously with artists such as OutKast, The Roots, Mos Def, Kanye West, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillas, M.I.A., and the Fugees, leading the way in innovating and revitalizing the genre. <br /><br />Florida has maintained a role in influencing and developing hip hop music and culture. Southern hip hop, which is also known as Dirty South, is a subgenre of hip hop that emerged in the Southeastern United States in cities such as Atlanta, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Miami. Miami native, Debbie Harry, who was the lead singer of the American punk rock band Blondie in the mid-to-late 1970s, released a song entitled “Rapture” in 1981, which became the first rap song to top the Billboard Top 100 chart. The music video for the song became the first rap video to be broadcast on Music Television (MTV). Miami Bass, also known as booty music, emerged in the mid-1980s, with an emphasis on synthesizers and drum machines, raised dance tempos, and frequently sexually explicit lyrics and samples. Luther Campbell, also known as Uncle Luke, and his group, 2 Live Crew, played a crucial role in popularizing Miami Bass in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The group gained international notoriety in 1988, when a record store clerk was cited for selling a copy of their explicit album to an undercover police officer, which was the first time in the United States that a record store owner was held liable for an obscenity violation. Although the clerk was found not guilty by a jury, the group’s next album, <em>As Nasty As They Wanna Be</em>, was ruled obscene and illegal to sell by U.S. District Court Judge Jose Gonzalez, leading to the arrest of a local retailer two days later for selling a copy to an undercover officer, and to three of the members of the band after a performance in Hollywood, Florida. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit overturned the obscenity ruling in 1992, and the United States Supreme Court refused to hear Broward County’s appeal. Other notable hip hop artists from Florida include Rick Ross and Flo Rida, both from Carol City, Trick Daddy, Pitbull and Trina from Miami, T-Pain from Tallahassee, and Solillaquists of Sound from Orlando.
External Reference
Rose, Tricia. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29358082" target="_blank"><em>Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America</em></a>. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994.
Ogbar, Jeffrey Ogbonna Green. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/153580063" target="_blank"><em>Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap</em></a>. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Charnas, Dan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/426803687" target="_blank"><em>The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop</em></a>. New York, N.Y.: New American Library, 2010.
Light, Alan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41572698" target="_blank"><em>The Vibe History of Hip Hop</em></a>. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Subject
Hip-hop--Southern States
Music--United States
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/140" target="_blank">Central Florida Music History Collection</a><span>, RICHES of Central Florida.</span>
Type
Collection
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
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5 color photographs
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Title
Solillaquists of Sound at Slingapour's, 2003
Alternative Title
Solillaquists of Sound at Slingapour's
Subject
Solillaquists of Sound (Musical group)
Swamburger
Hip-hop--Southern States
Concerts--United States
Orlando (Fla.)
Rappers
Musicians--Southern States
Description
Solillaquists of Sound performing live at at Slingapour's, a venue located at 18 Wall Street in Wall Street Plaza in Downtown Orlando, Florida, on February 19, 2003. The first photograph features, from left to right, Tonya Combs, Alexandrah, DiViNCi and MC Swamburger. The second photograph the first three, minus Swamburger. The third and fourth photographs feature Swamburger with Alexandrah and then with DiViNCi, respectively. The final photograph shows DiViNCi playing a Media Player Classic (MPC).<br /><br />Solillaquists of Sound, also known as Solilla, is an American hip-hop quartet formed in Orlando in August 2002. The group, consisting of MCs (masters of ceremonies) Swamburger and Alexandrah, poet/vocalist Tonya Combs, and producer/composer/MPC player DiViNCi, employs sophisticated, socially conscious lyrics and musical composition, based on the life-affirming, justice-oriented views held by the members. The group utilizes melody and harmony in their vocals, often delivering many punctuated syllables in rapid succession in tight synchronicity. In 2002, Asaan Brooks, also known as Swamburger, began having weekly meetings in his Orlando home about music, community involvement, spirituality, and veganism. At one of these meetings, Brooks and his friend, producer and MPC player Glen Valencia, Jr., also known as DiViNCi, with whom he had already recorded material, decided to begin performing together. A frequent attendee of their shows, Tonya Combs, joined them on background vocals, and soon the group's friend, singer Alexandra Sarton, also known as Alexandrah, left her home in Chicago, Illinois, to join the band. The group categorized themselves in their own genre, FAHEEM (funk/astro/hip-hop/extraterrestrially energized message), which they felt more accurately conveyed both their music and their beliefs regarding spirituality, life, and love. They were invited by hip-hop artist Sage Francis to tour with him, and his label, Epitaph, signed them to their sister label, Anti-, in early 2006. They recorded two albums under the label, <em>As If We Existed</em> (2006) and <em>No More Heroes</em> (2008), before leaving the label and producing their own albums, <em>The 4th Wall: Part 1</em> (2012) and <em>The 4th Wall: Part 2</em> (2013). In addition to Francis, the band has toured with artists such as Michael Franti & Spearhead, KRS-One, Bad Brains, Ozomatli, El-P, and Lyrics Born. <br /><br />The group is also known for their community involvement, appearing on a tribute record for fellow rapper/producer J Dilla, also known as James Dewitt Yancey, who passed away in 2006 from a blood disease. The album, <em>Death of the Muse</em>, featured J-Live, Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, and Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey,Maureen Yancey, the mother of J Dilla. Okayplayer.com featured the effort as one of their top news stories, and LA Weekly called the track "the most awesome song in the history of awesomedom." The group hopes to open the Solilla Center 4 Creative Kids, a non-profit school designed to empower youth with the knowledge of all things good for mind, body, and spirit, offering kids yoga, an art gallery, massage, a cafe, smoothie and juice bar, language, art, poetry, gardening, and vegan cooking classes, as well as an after-school tutoring program.
Type
Still Image
Source
Original color photographs by Alicia Lyman, February 19, 2003: <a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/CONCERTS-archive/C0000q_kABE1Z.zs" target="_blank">Archive: Concerts Archive</a>, Alicia Lyman.
Is Part Of
<a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/CONCERTS-archive/C0000q_kABE1Z.zs" target="_blank">Archive: Concerts Archive</a>, Alicia Lyman.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/154" target="_blank">Hip Hop Collection</a>, Central Florida Music History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original color photographs by Alicia Lyman, February 19, 2003. <a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/2003-02-19-SOLILLAQUISTS-OF-SOUND-Slingapours-Orlando-FL/G0000QfFR9S.U_KM/I0000JhsX5jxoFgM/C0000fGs2siRdnQY" target="_blank">http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/2003-02-19-SOLILLAQUISTS-OF-SOUND-Slingapours-Orlando-FL/G0000QfFR9S.U_KM/I0000JhsX5jxoFgM/C0000fGs2siRdnQY</a>
Coverage
Slingapour's, Wall Street Plaza, Orlando, Florida
Creator
Lyman, Alicia
Publisher
Lyman, Alicia
Contributor
Lyman, Alicia
Date Created
2003-02-19
Date Copyrighted
2003-02-19
Format
image/jpg
Extent
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Medium
5 color photographs
Mediator
History Teacher
Humanities Teacher
Music Teacher
Provenance
Originally created and published by <a href="http://alicialyman.com/" target="_blank">Alicia Lyman</a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://alicialyman.com/" target="_blank">Alicia Lyman</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/CONCERTS-archive/C0000q_kABE1Z.zs" target="_blank">Alicia Lyman Collection</a>
External Reference
Light, Alan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41572698" target="_blank"><em>The Vibe History of Hip Hop</em></a>. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Le-Huu, Bao. "<a href="http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/solillaquists-of-sounds-saga-comes-to-its-natural-conclusion/Content?oid=2241323" target="_blank">Solillaquists of Sound's saga comes to its natural conclusion: 'The 4th Wall' completes the group's epic listener's trilogy</a>." <em>Orlando Weekly</em>. January 7, 2014. http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/solillaquists-of-sounds-saga-comes-to-its-natural-conclusion/Content?oid=2241323.
Strout, Justin. "<a href="http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/philosophy-of-love/Content?oid=2274026" target="_blank">Philosophy of Love</a>." <em>. September 21, 2006. http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/philosophy-of-love/Content?oid=2274026.</em>
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Alexandra Sarton
Alexandrah
Alicia Lyman
alternative hip hop
Asaan Brooks
concert
deejay
disc jockey
DiViNCi
DJ
Downtown Orlando
emcee
FAHEEM
funk
Glen Valencia, Jr.
hip hop
master of ceremonies
MC
MC Swamburger
Media Player Classic
MPC
music
musician
orlando
producer
rap
rapper
Slingapour's
Sol.illaquists of Sound
Solilla
Solillaquists of Sound
Swam
Tonya Combs
underground hip hop
underground music
vocalist
Wall Street
Wall Street Plaza
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Title
Hip Hop Collection
Alternative Title
Hip Hop Collection
Description
Around the early 1970s, an underground urban cultural movement began to develop in the South Bronx in New York City, New York. As block parties became increasingly prevalent in the region, disc jockeys (DJs) would play popular musical genres, such as funk, disco, and soul, and began isolating the percussive instrumental breaks of songs. Immigrants from the Caribbean islands introduced this technique, known as dub music. Since the percussive breaks in these songs tended to be short, DJs extended them using two turntables. The movement that would become known as “hip hop” involved four distinct characteristics. In addition to turntablism, which is considered the aural element, the other characteristics include rap music, which is the oral element, b-boying—also known as breakdancing, which is the physical element—and graffiti art, which is the visual element. Other elements include beatboxing, which is a form of vocal percussion using one’s mouth to mimic a drum machine, and sampling, which is the act of taking a portion of a sound recording and reusing it as an instrument. <br /><br />Clive Campbell, known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is credited as the originator of hip hop music in the early 1970s. Although the genre developed in several places in the early 1970s, a concert performed by Herc is considered to be one of the pivotal and formative events that led to the rise of hip hop music and culture. Among those who claimed to be in attendance were a number of future hip hop stars, including Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaaraa, Red Alert, KRS-One, and Grandmaster Caz. <br /><br />In 1979, the Sugarhill Gang’s song, “Rapper’s Delight,” became the first hip hop record to gain widespread popularity in the mainstream. During the 1980s, the genre evolved and developed more complex styles, spreading across the country and throughout the world and leading to what would be known as new school hip hop. This Golden Age hip hop era spanned from around 1983 to the early 1990s, spawning innovators such as LL Cool J, Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy, Eric B. & Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, De La Soul, the Beastie Boys, and Juice Crew. Gangsta rap, a subgenre of hip hop with a lyrical focus on political and social commentary mixed with the realities of a criminal lifestyle, was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Ice T, N.W.A., KRS-One, Just-Ice, Schoolly D, and the Geto Boys. By the early 1990s, gangsta rap further split into regional genres when West Coast rappers such as Ice Cube, Eazy E, Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Warren G, Nate Dog, and 2Pac Shakur squared off against their East Coast counterparts, such as the Notorious B.I.G. (also known as Biggie Smalls), Puff Daddy, Lil’ Kim, the Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, and Nas. After the murders of Shakur and Smalls, gangsta rap peaked in its popularity, paving the way for mainstream rappers like Jay-Z, DMX, 50 Cent, Eminem, Nelly, and Drake. Mainstream rap has been criticized by hip hop fans and pioneers for its concern with image over substance, as opposed to alternative hip hop, which emerged simultaneously with artists such as OutKast, The Roots, Mos Def, Kanye West, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillas, M.I.A., and the Fugees, leading the way in innovating and revitalizing the genre. <br /><br />Florida has maintained a role in influencing and developing hip hop music and culture. Southern hip hop, which is also known as Dirty South, is a subgenre of hip hop that emerged in the Southeastern United States in cities such as Atlanta, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Miami. Miami native, Debbie Harry, who was the lead singer of the American punk rock band Blondie in the mid-to-late 1970s, released a song entitled “Rapture” in 1981, which became the first rap song to top the Billboard Top 100 chart. The music video for the song became the first rap video to be broadcast on Music Television (MTV). Miami Bass, also known as booty music, emerged in the mid-1980s, with an emphasis on synthesizers and drum machines, raised dance tempos, and frequently sexually explicit lyrics and samples. Luther Campbell, also known as Uncle Luke, and his group, 2 Live Crew, played a crucial role in popularizing Miami Bass in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The group gained international notoriety in 1988, when a record store clerk was cited for selling a copy of their explicit album to an undercover police officer, which was the first time in the United States that a record store owner was held liable for an obscenity violation. Although the clerk was found not guilty by a jury, the group’s next album, <em>As Nasty As They Wanna Be</em>, was ruled obscene and illegal to sell by U.S. District Court Judge Jose Gonzalez, leading to the arrest of a local retailer two days later for selling a copy to an undercover officer, and to three of the members of the band after a performance in Hollywood, Florida. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit overturned the obscenity ruling in 1992, and the United States Supreme Court refused to hear Broward County’s appeal. Other notable hip hop artists from Florida include Rick Ross and Flo Rida, both from Carol City, Trick Daddy, Pitbull and Trina from Miami, T-Pain from Tallahassee, and Solillaquists of Sound from Orlando.
External Reference
Rose, Tricia. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29358082" target="_blank"><em>Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America</em></a>. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994.
Ogbar, Jeffrey Ogbonna Green. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/153580063" target="_blank"><em>Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap</em></a>. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Charnas, Dan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/426803687" target="_blank"><em>The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop</em></a>. New York, N.Y.: New American Library, 2010.
Light, Alan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41572698" target="_blank"><em>The Vibe History of Hip Hop</em></a>. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Subject
Hip-hop--Southern States
Music--United States
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/140" target="_blank">Central Florida Music History Collection</a><span>, RICHES of Central Florida.</span>
Type
Collection
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
2 color photographs
Dublin Core
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Title
Solillaquists of Sound at BackBooth, 2003
Alternative Title
Solillaquists of Sound at BackBooth
Subject
Solillaquists of Sound (Musical group)
Swamburger
Hip-hop--Southern States
Concerts--United States
Orlando (Fla.)
Rappers
Musicians--Southern States
Description
Solillaquists of Sound performing live at BackBooth, located at 37 West Pine Street in Downtown Orlando, Florida, on October 25, 2003. The first photograph features Alexandra Sarton, popularly known as Alexandrah, and the second photograph shows, from left to right, Tonya Combs, and DiViNCi.<br /><br />Solillaquists of Sound, also known as Solilla, is an American hip-hop quartet formed in Orlando in August 2002. The group, consisting of MCs (masters of ceremonies) Swamburger and Alexandrah, poet/vocalist Tonya Combs, and producer/composer/MPC player DiViNCi, employs sophisticated, socially conscious lyrics and musical composition, based on the life-affirming, justice-oriented views held by the members. The group utilizes melody and harmony in their vocals, often delivering many punctuated syllables in rapid succession in tight synchronicity. In 2002, Asaan Brooks, also known as Swamburger, began having weekly meetings in his Orlando home about music, community involvement, spirituality, and veganism. At one of these meetings, Brooks and his friend, producer and MPC player Glen Valencia, Jr., also known as DiViNCi, with whom he had already recorded material, decided to begin performing together. A frequent attendee of their shows, Tonya Combs, joined them on background vocals, and soon the group's friend, singer Alexandra Sarton, also known as Alexandrah, left her home in Chicago, Illinois, to join the band. The group categorized themselves in their own genre, FAHEEM (funk/astro/hip-hop/extraterrestrially energized message), which they felt more accurately conveyed both their music and their beliefs regarding spirituality, life, and love. They were invited by hip-hop artist Sage Francis to tour with him, and his label, Epitaph, signed them to their sister label, Anti-, in early 2006. They recorded two albums under the label, <em>As If We Existed</em> (2006) and <em>No More Heroes</em> (2008), before leaving the label and producing their own albums, <em>The 4th Wall: Part 1</em> (2012) and <em>The 4th Wall: Part 2</em> (2013). In addition to Francis, the band has toured with artists such as Michael Franti & Spearhead, KRS-One, Bad Brains, Ozomatli, El-P, and Lyrics Born. <br /><br />The group is also known for their community involvement, appearing on a tribute record for fellow rapper/producer J Dilla, also known as James Dewitt Yancey, who passed away in 2006 from a blood disease. The album, <em>Death of the Muse</em>, featured J-Live, Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, and Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey,Maureen Yancey, the mother of J Dilla. Okayplayer.com featured the effort as one of their top news stories, and LA Weekly called the track "the most awesome song in the history of awesomedom." The group hopes to open the Solilla Center 4 Creative Kids, a non-profit school designed to empower youth with the knowledge of all things good for mind, body, and spirit, offering kids yoga, an art gallery, massage, a cafe, smoothie and juice bar, language, art, poetry, gardening, and vegan cooking classes, as well as an after-school tutoring program.
Type
Still Image
Source
Original color photographs by Alicia Lyman, October 25, 2003: <a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/CONCERTS-archive/C0000q_kABE1Z.zs" target="_blank">Archive: Concerts Archive</a>, Alicia Lyman.
Is Part Of
<a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/CONCERTS-archive/C0000q_kABE1Z.zs" target="_blank">Archive: Concerts Archive</a>, Alicia Lyman.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/154" target="_blank">Hip Hop Collection</a>, Central Florida Music History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original color photographs by Alicia Lyman, October 25, 2003. <a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/2003-10-25-SOLILLAQUISTS-OF-SOUND-Back-Booth-Orlando-FL/G0000cvnah3oFtms/I00006PYpGIWwnkA/C0000fGs2siRdnQY" target="_blank">http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/2003-10-25-SOLILLAQUISTS-OF-SOUND-Back-Booth-Orlando-FL/G0000cvnah3oFtms/I00006PYpGIWwnkA/C0000fGs2siRdnQY</a>
Coverage
BackBooth, Orlando, Florida
Creator
Lyman, Alicia
Publisher
Lyman, Alicia
Contributor
Lyman, Alicia
Date Created
2003-10-25
Date Copyrighted
2003-10-25
Format
image/jpg
Extent
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2 color photographs
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History Teacher
Humanities Teacher
Music Teacher
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Originally created and published by <a href="http://alicialyman.com/" target="_blank">Alicia Lyman</a>.
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Donation
Curator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/CONCERTS-archive/C0000q_kABE1Z.zs" target="_blank">Alicia Lyman Collection</a>
External Reference
Light, Alan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41572698" target="_blank"><em>The Vibe History of Hip Hop</em></a>. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Le-Huu, Bao. "<a href="http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/solillaquists-of-sounds-saga-comes-to-its-natural-conclusion/Content?oid=2241323" target="_blank">Solillaquists of Sound's saga comes to its natural conclusion: 'The 4th Wall' completes the group's epic listener's trilogy</a>." <em>Orlando Weekly</em>. January 7, 2014. http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/solillaquists-of-sounds-saga-comes-to-its-natural-conclusion/Content?oid=2241323.
Strout, Justin. "<a href="http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/philosophy-of-love/Content?oid=2274026" target="_blank">Philosophy of Love</a>." <em>. September 21, 2006. http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/philosophy-of-love/Content?oid=2274026.</em>
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Alexandra Sarton
Alexandrah
Alicia Lyman
alternative hip hop
alternative hip-hop
BackBooth
concert
deejay
disc jockey
DiViNCi
DJ
Downtown Orlando
FAHEEM
funk
hip hop
music
musician
orlando
Pine Street
rap
Sol.illaquists of Sound
Solilla
Solillaquists of Sound
underground hip hop
underground music
vocalist
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Dublin Core
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Title
Hip Hop Collection
Alternative Title
Hip Hop Collection
Description
Around the early 1970s, an underground urban cultural movement began to develop in the South Bronx in New York City, New York. As block parties became increasingly prevalent in the region, disc jockeys (DJs) would play popular musical genres, such as funk, disco, and soul, and began isolating the percussive instrumental breaks of songs. Immigrants from the Caribbean islands introduced this technique, known as dub music. Since the percussive breaks in these songs tended to be short, DJs extended them using two turntables. The movement that would become known as “hip hop” involved four distinct characteristics. In addition to turntablism, which is considered the aural element, the other characteristics include rap music, which is the oral element, b-boying—also known as breakdancing, which is the physical element—and graffiti art, which is the visual element. Other elements include beatboxing, which is a form of vocal percussion using one’s mouth to mimic a drum machine, and sampling, which is the act of taking a portion of a sound recording and reusing it as an instrument. <br /><br />Clive Campbell, known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is credited as the originator of hip hop music in the early 1970s. Although the genre developed in several places in the early 1970s, a concert performed by Herc is considered to be one of the pivotal and formative events that led to the rise of hip hop music and culture. Among those who claimed to be in attendance were a number of future hip hop stars, including Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaaraa, Red Alert, KRS-One, and Grandmaster Caz. <br /><br />In 1979, the Sugarhill Gang’s song, “Rapper’s Delight,” became the first hip hop record to gain widespread popularity in the mainstream. During the 1980s, the genre evolved and developed more complex styles, spreading across the country and throughout the world and leading to what would be known as new school hip hop. This Golden Age hip hop era spanned from around 1983 to the early 1990s, spawning innovators such as LL Cool J, Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy, Eric B. & Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, De La Soul, the Beastie Boys, and Juice Crew. Gangsta rap, a subgenre of hip hop with a lyrical focus on political and social commentary mixed with the realities of a criminal lifestyle, was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Ice T, N.W.A., KRS-One, Just-Ice, Schoolly D, and the Geto Boys. By the early 1990s, gangsta rap further split into regional genres when West Coast rappers such as Ice Cube, Eazy E, Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Warren G, Nate Dog, and 2Pac Shakur squared off against their East Coast counterparts, such as the Notorious B.I.G. (also known as Biggie Smalls), Puff Daddy, Lil’ Kim, the Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, and Nas. After the murders of Shakur and Smalls, gangsta rap peaked in its popularity, paving the way for mainstream rappers like Jay-Z, DMX, 50 Cent, Eminem, Nelly, and Drake. Mainstream rap has been criticized by hip hop fans and pioneers for its concern with image over substance, as opposed to alternative hip hop, which emerged simultaneously with artists such as OutKast, The Roots, Mos Def, Kanye West, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillas, M.I.A., and the Fugees, leading the way in innovating and revitalizing the genre. <br /><br />Florida has maintained a role in influencing and developing hip hop music and culture. Southern hip hop, which is also known as Dirty South, is a subgenre of hip hop that emerged in the Southeastern United States in cities such as Atlanta, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Miami. Miami native, Debbie Harry, who was the lead singer of the American punk rock band Blondie in the mid-to-late 1970s, released a song entitled “Rapture” in 1981, which became the first rap song to top the Billboard Top 100 chart. The music video for the song became the first rap video to be broadcast on Music Television (MTV). Miami Bass, also known as booty music, emerged in the mid-1980s, with an emphasis on synthesizers and drum machines, raised dance tempos, and frequently sexually explicit lyrics and samples. Luther Campbell, also known as Uncle Luke, and his group, 2 Live Crew, played a crucial role in popularizing Miami Bass in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The group gained international notoriety in 1988, when a record store clerk was cited for selling a copy of their explicit album to an undercover police officer, which was the first time in the United States that a record store owner was held liable for an obscenity violation. Although the clerk was found not guilty by a jury, the group’s next album, <em>As Nasty As They Wanna Be</em>, was ruled obscene and illegal to sell by U.S. District Court Judge Jose Gonzalez, leading to the arrest of a local retailer two days later for selling a copy to an undercover officer, and to three of the members of the band after a performance in Hollywood, Florida. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit overturned the obscenity ruling in 1992, and the United States Supreme Court refused to hear Broward County’s appeal. Other notable hip hop artists from Florida include Rick Ross and Flo Rida, both from Carol City, Trick Daddy, Pitbull and Trina from Miami, T-Pain from Tallahassee, and Solillaquists of Sound from Orlando.
External Reference
Rose, Tricia. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29358082" target="_blank"><em>Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America</em></a>. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994.
Ogbar, Jeffrey Ogbonna Green. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/153580063" target="_blank"><em>Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap</em></a>. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Charnas, Dan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/426803687" target="_blank"><em>The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop</em></a>. New York, N.Y.: New American Library, 2010.
Light, Alan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41572698" target="_blank"><em>The Vibe History of Hip Hop</em></a>. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Subject
Hip-hop--Southern States
Music--United States
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/140" target="_blank">Central Florida Music History Collection</a><span>, RICHES of Central Florida.</span>
Type
Collection
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
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Original Format
2 color photographs
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Title
Solillaquists of Sound at Wall Street Plaza, 2014
Alternative Title
Solillaquists of Sound at Wall Street
Subject
Solillaquists of Sound (Musical group)
Swamburger
Hip-hop--Southern States
Concerts--United States
Orlando (Fla.)
Rappers
Musicians--Southern States
Description
Solillaquists of Sound performing live at the Florida Music Festival, held at Wall Street Plaza in Downtown Orlando, Florida, on April 24, 2014. These photographs features, from left to right, Tonya Combs, Asaan Brooks, Glen Valencia, Jr., and Alexandra Sarton. The Florida Music Festival (FMF) was founded by aXis Magazine & Promotions in 2002 as a three-day music festival and conference that showcases unsigned artists while promoting major national acts. <br /><br />Solillaquists of Sound, also known as Solilla, is an American hip-hop quartet formed in Orlando in August 2002. The group, consisting of MCs (masters of ceremonies) Swamburger and Alexandrah, poet/vocalist Tonya Combs, and producer/composer/MPC player DiViNCi, employs sophisticated, socially conscious lyrics and musical composition, based on the life-affirming, justice-oriented views held by the members. The group utilizes melody and harmony in their vocals, often delivering many punctuated syllables in rapid succession in tight synchronicity. In 2002, Asaan Brooks, also known as Swamburger, began having weekly meetings in his Orlando home about music, community involvement, spirituality, and veganism. At one of these meetings, Brooks and his friend, producer and MPC player Glen Valencia, Jr., also known as DiViNCi, with whom he had already recorded material, decided to begin performing together. A frequent attendee of their shows, Tonya Combs, joined them on background vocals, and soon the group's friend, singer Alexandra Sarton, also known as Alexandrah, left her home in Chicago, Illinois, to join the band. The group categorized themselves in their own genre, FAHEEM (funk/astro/hip-hop/extraterrestrially energized message), which they felt more accurately conveyed both their music and their beliefs regarding spirituality, life, and love. They were invited by hip-hop artist Sage Francis to tour with him, and his label, Epitaph, signed them to their sister label, Anti-, in early 2006. They recorded two albums under the label, <em>As If We Existed</em> (2006) and <em>No More Heroes</em> (2008), before leaving the label and producing their own albums, <em>The 4th Wall: Part 1</em> (2012) and <em>The 4th Wall: Part 2</em> (2013). In addition to Francis, the band has toured with artists such as Michael Franti & Spearhead, KRS-One, Bad Brains, Ozomatli, El-P, and Lyrics Born. <br /><br />The group is also known for their community involvement, appearing on a tribute record for fellow rapper/producer J Dilla, also known as James Dewitt Yancey, who passed away in 2006 from a blood disease. The album, <em>Death of the Muse</em>, featured J-Live, Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, and Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey,Maureen Yancey, the mother of J Dilla. Okayplayer.com featured the effort as one of their top news stories, and LA Weekly called the track "the most awesome song in the history of awesomedom." The group hopes to open the Solilla Center 4 Creative Kids, a non-profit school designed to empower youth with the knowledge of all things good for mind, body, and spirit, offering kids yoga, an art gallery, massage, a cafe, smoothie and juice bar, language, art, poetry, gardening, and vegan cooking classes, as well as an after-school tutoring program.
Type
Still Image
Source
Original color photographs by Alicia Lyman, April 24, 2014: <a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/CONCERTS-archive/C0000q_kABE1Z.zs" target="_blank">Archive: Concerts Archive</a>, Alicia Lyman.
Is Part Of
<a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/CONCERTS-archive/C0000q_kABE1Z.zs" target="_blank">Archive: Concerts Archive</a>, Alicia Lyman.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/154" target="_blank">Hip Hop Collection</a>, Central Florida Music History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original color photographs by Alicia Lyman, April 24, 2014. <a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/2014-04-SOLILLAQUISTS-OF-SOUND-Wall-St-Plaza-2014FMF-Orlando-FL/G0000j5MxJA.FdtU/I0000tosLXcv8ptE/C0000fGs2siRdnQY" target="_blank">http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/2014-04-SOLILLAQUISTS-OF-SOUND-Wall-St-Plaza-2014FMF-Orlando-FL/G0000j5MxJA.FdtU/I0000tosLXcv8ptE/C0000fGs2siRdnQY</a>
Coverage
Wall Street Plaza, Orlando, Florida
Creator
Lyman, Alicia
Publisher
Lyman, Alicia
Contributor
Lyman, Alicia
Date Created
2014-04-24
Date Copyrighted
2014-04-24
Format
image/jpg
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26.7 KB
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Medium
2 color photographs
Mediator
History Teacher
Humanities Teacher
Music Teacher
Provenance
Originally created and published by <a href="http://alicialyman.com/" target="_blank">Alicia Lyman</a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://alicialyman.com/" target="_blank">Alicia Lyman</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/CONCERTS-archive/C0000q_kABE1Z.zs" target="_blank">Alicia Lyman Collection</a>
External Reference
Light, Alan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41572698" target="_blank"><em>The Vibe History of Hip Hop</em></a>. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Le-Huu, Bao. "<a href="http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/solillaquists-of-sounds-saga-comes-to-its-natural-conclusion/Content?oid=2241323" target="_blank">Solillaquists of Sound's saga comes to its natural conclusion: 'The 4th Wall' completes the group's epic listener's trilogy</a>." <em>Orlando Weekly</em>. January 7, 2014. http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/solillaquists-of-sounds-saga-comes-to-its-natural-conclusion/Content?oid=2241323.
Strout, Justin. "<a href="http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/philosophy-of-love/Content?oid=2274026" target="_blank">Philosophy of Love</a>." <em>. September 21, 2006. http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/philosophy-of-love/Content?oid=2274026.</em>
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Alexandra Sarton
Alexandrah
Alicia Lyman
alternative hip hop
alternative hip-hop
Asaan Brooks
concert
deejay
disc jockey
DJ
Downtown Orlando
emcee
FAHEEM
festival
Florida Music Festival
FMF
funk
Glen Valencia, Jr.
hip hop
master of ceremonies
MC
MC Swamburger
Media Player Classic
MPC
music
musician
orlando
rap
rapper
Sol.illaquists of Sound
Solilla
Solillaquists of Sound
Swam
Tonya Combs
underground hip hop
underground music
vocalist
Wall Street Plaza