Wann wurde der Rap „erfunden“?
The Sugarhill Gang’s 1979 single “Rapper’s Delight” offered a new style of recitation to the pop world, characterized by semi-spoken rhymes declaiming over a rhythmic musical backing, drawn from the sampling of pre-existing recordings and the use of DJ mixing techniques. The official history of Rap leads back to the black DJs of the 1950s in the south of the United States, but this is not the full truth. The sermonizing in Black Churches is a broad field of rap-like performances, unexplored untill today. The old world roots of Rap lay in the hypersyllabic manners of recitation used by the bards of the stock breeders in the large steppes of Central Asia to heighten the intensity of their recital. In connection with horse and camel breeding this technique reached the Sudan (Sahel), from where it sprang to some parts of America by slave trade.