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Hip-Hop Off The Top

Lee Rimer

Published: 2012-05-31

This undergraduate student paper from Lee Rimer looks at how improvisation is a crucial element in hip-hop culture and music. Particularly, the paper examines MCing and breakdancing as illustrations of how improvisation is crucial to becoming a gifted and respected hip-hop artist.

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So one of the things that improvisation has come to mean in the context of highly technological performance is that improvisation is the last claim to the legitimate presence of a human in the performance of music.

– Bob Ostertag