EXPRESSION

We smile, we love, we cry. We, the human beings experience a wide spectrum of emotions in our life. Some of them are expressed while others die in our own mind, but from time immemorial, our emotions have been voiced through music. Music, which is composed of seven distinct tunes, is actually an expression of human emotions. Expressing is one element no man or woman to live without. As time went by, more and more forms of expression came to a raise. Since the beginning of time, music has been used as an expression of cultural identity. Ancient tribal societies used music as a foundation for gatherings and to express their history, ethnicity, and cultural beliefs. Music has changed throughout the ages, but the use of music as an essential part of cultural and individual expression has changed very little. Over the years music has not only been used to express feelings or the state of the world in which are living in, but is now also used to advertise for popular brands like Nokia and Nike to name a few. Young people of today often identify themselves with certain things in life by the help of music. Music can put more meaning to something that is just expressed with maybe words or images. For example the FIFA World Cup 2010 Song “wave your flag” by Keaan was more of a meanigful to people than the slogan for the event which was FEEL IT, IT IS HERE!.


Since music has a large range of geners i wanted to talk about Rap music. A style of music that first appeared in the mid-1970s as an outgrowth of popular dance music. Developed, as was break dancing, by urban American blacks, its format originally consisted of a disc jockey (D.J.) playing snatches of a record in short bursts, punctuated by rhythmical scratching of the needle on the record, while a “rapper” sang or recited in fast, slangy, rhymed lyrics. Rap lyrics often dealt with harsh subjects such as gangs, drugs, and crime, rap's mainstream popularity was typified but at the end of the day it is expression. Rap music has brought more issues that are faced in society on a daily bases to the forefront, weather it may be how the government runs the country or how people can be the change they want to see in life. The intersting about rap music is that although people say that it is rude and uses very harsh words, it also makes alot of money for those who sing it and those who say its wrong and sends out the wrong information to the public. Some government messages that can be health or education sector use rap music to draw audience so that their message can reach larger masses than the masses that could have be drawn if they did not use rap music.


The rap music also developed a sense of style in dressing or fashion. The bagginbg jeans, large size t-shirts and all. It is a way to be idenrified and a way to be accepted in the rap and hip hop world. Alot of people like Russle Simmons who is the CEO nad co founder of DEF JAMS has made a success in this, having a clothing label that represents the rap and hip hop music world and a company that producese the music too. Dance is also very expressive with emotion and the movement that it has. In terms of the hip hop dance. The first mention of hip hop dance dates back to the 70’s when some new moves were introduced to the dance world to accompany the funky sounds of hip hop music that was also being discovered. Most popular among African Americans and Latin Americans at first, there are many races who now lay claim to defining this diverse dance phenomenon. The first mention of hip hop dance dates back to the 70’s when some new moves were introduced to the dance world to accompany the funky sounds of hip hop music that was also being discovered. Most popular among African Americans and Latin Americans at first, there are many races who now lay claim to defining this diverse dance phenomenon.


Across the United States from the ‘Boogie Down’ Bronx, New York to the ‘Beat Street’ corners of Compton, California, young people everywhere took to this new style of dancing that included such feats as breaking, popping, locking, gliding, ticking, vibrating and krumping. In the earlier days, some hip hop dance moves such as the Humpty Dance were made popular by hip hop artists who had created the songs from which these dances were derived. Early on, dance competitions on sidewalks included beat boxing, a form of music-making that included raps and special sound effects made with the hands and mouth. Artists like The Fat Boys rose to fame and fortune with Buffy’s beat boxing talents. After the outbreak of interest in hip hop dance, there were even several movies highlighting this new form of dancing that combined beats, sounds, and gravity-defying moves. Crush Groove and other movies saw their day in the spotlight as hip hop dance continued to expand to different cultures and races and locations around the globe. From freestyle forms that were often the spotlight of informal battles both indoors and outdoors to formally trained dancers who began to incorporate hip hop dance as a means of dance and


physical exercise, hip hop dance has continued to evolve. Today, hip hop dance has earned a recognized place in dance studios and is practiced as regularly as other styles.


So it is clear that music and dance are expressive but it is the individual who decides themselves how to use that expressive form up to their best ability in life, but one must admit that some issues that we face on a daily bases have been dealt with on a sense able way than other ways like wars. In the old days instead of killing someone for what they say, you can just express yourself in a song or battle them in a dance off at a club or street. One must think if these elements did not exist what or how would have we dealt with the worlds problems and making our point and opinions be heard and listened to.