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| Related genres | Hip-hop, 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 |
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, 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]
- ^ 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 Archived 2010-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Harvard Dictionary of Music article for rap, retrieved from CredoReference