"David W. Fenton" iterated
It's *not* fine to use specious arguments to claim there's no art
whatsoever in it.
I never said "there's no art whatsoever in it." ;-)
That must have been you.
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Do you really mean to assert that Shakespeare or Swinburne never
stretch-ed [2 syllables] words to make them fit?
'twas once upon a time actually pronounced that way.
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Please tell us which rappers
"fit any word and words desired into 4/4 time"
without regard to rhythmic placement. Be specific.
It would take up too much bandwidth to list them all
...
:-)
Besides which, this discussion is so far off topic. I'm done.
hello Mark,
Thanks for addressing the argument, instead of smart alec comments like a few
others.
I too enjoy assonance. I happen to feel that a lot of the rhymes in rap are not
assonance, but merely "close enough". One time there is a perfect rhymne, another time you
dignify it with the te
What a breathtakingly ignorant statement.
OOh! rap is great high art eh?
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- "Rap" and "hip hop" aren't quite the same thing, ...
Thus, one might reasonably say that the parlato songs
in The Music Man are a form of rap (but not hip hop); while on the
other hand a certain style of clothing might be described as hip hop
(but not rap).
Ah ha! So, there you make
They may have come before the genre we call rap, but I fail to see
any difference whatsoever in the musical content involved, except for
the underlying musical style. They are both words spoken rhythmically
to musical accompaniment, where the delivery may have definite pitch
contours at times and
gan at the church he really is
referring to. All the same to him. Keyboard instrument. Those black and white key
thingies. I absolutely believe we who know better need to make distinctions.
"No, no, not intelligent." - W S Gilbert: _Princess Ida_.
-Rob
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Nope. They came long before rap. And their origins are G&S patter songs and Noel
Coward.
And they too are rap.
Rap is not new. It is ancient.
One of many online sources tells us:
"Rap's origins stretch far back to African oral tradition; it has a more immediate
predecessor in the spoken-word
...Thus, one might reasonably say that the parlato songs
in The Music Man are a form of rap ... <
Nope. They came long before rap. And their origins are G&S patter songs
and Noel Coward.
-rob
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> Thank you John and Thomas - I remembered this as awkward in the past, didn't
> find it mentioned in Help, ...<
Could we have the answer posted publicly, please?
-Robert C L Watson
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