List of hip hop festivals
The following is an incomplete list of hip hop festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on hip hop music or other elements of hip hop culture. Hip hop music, also called rap music,[1][2][3] is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.[1]
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| Related genres | Hip hop music, funk, disco, dub, rhythm and blues, reggae, dancehall, toasting, performance poetry, neo soul, big beat, trap |
| Location | Worldwide |
| Related events | Concert tour, music festival, jazz festivals, electronic music festivals, reggae festivals, blues festivals, block party |
FestivalsEdit
The annual Blockfest in Tampere, Finland is the largest hip hop music event in the Nordic countries[4] and also one of the best-selling festivals in advance.[5] Picture of Blockfest in 2017.
GalleryEdit
See alsoEdit
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hip hop music festivals. |
Related listsEdit
The following lists have some or total overlap:
- Czech hip hop#Czech hip hop festivals
- List of music festivals
- List of jazz festivals
- List of reggae festivals
- List of electronic music festivals
Related categoriesEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ a b Encyclopædia Britannica article on rap, retrieved from britannica.com: Rap, musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming speech is chanted (“rapped”) to musical accompaniment. This backing music, which can include digital sampling (music and sounds extracted from other recordings), is also called hip-hop, the name used to refer to a broader cultural movement that includes rap, deejaying (turntable manipulation), graffiti painting, and break dancing.
- ^ AllMusic article for rap, retrieved from AllMusic.com
- ^ Harvard Dictionary of Music article for rap, retrieved from CredoReference
- ^ "Blockfest 2016". Visit Tampere (in Finnish). Visit Tampere Matkailuneuvonta. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ^ "Hiphop-festivaali Blockfest myytiin loppuun ennätysajassa". YLE (in Finnish). Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ^ Sherriffe, Mariah. ""No Major, No Problem" gathers musicians to showcase work in Hollywood". Sundial.