2006-09-12 03:52:39 · 17 answers · asked by lasha042004 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
The term hip hop (also spelled "hip-hop" or "hiphop") refers both to a musical (see Hip Hop music) and cultural genre or movement (hip-hop culture) that has developed predominantly in urban communities over the last quarter-century. Since first emerging in New York City in the seventies, hip-hop has grown to encompass not just rap music, but an entire lifestyle that consistently incorporates diverse elements of ethnicity, technology, art and urban life.
Motown Records, Inc., also known as Tamla-Motown outside of the United States, is a record label originally based out of Detroit, Michigan ("Motor City"), where it achieved widespread international success. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as the first record label owned by an African-American and primarily featuring African-American artists to regularly achieve crossover success and have a widespread, lasting effect on the music industry.
Incorporated on January 12, 1959 by Berry Gordy, Jr. as Tamla Records, Motown has, over the course of its history, owned or distributed releases from more than 45 subsidiaries in varying genres, although it is most famous for its releases in the musical genres of R&B, pop, and soul music. Motown left Detroit for Los Angeles in 1972, and remained an independent company until 1988, when Gordy sold the company to MCA. Now headquartered in New York City, Motown Records is today a subsidiary of the Universal Motown Records Group, itself a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.
In the 1960s, Motown and its soul-based subsidiaries were the most successful proponents of what came to be known as The Motown Sound, a style of soul music with distinctive characteristics, including the use of tambourine along with drums, bass instrumentation, a distinctive melodical and chord structure, and a call and response singing style originating in gospel music.
2006-09-12 03:55:49 · answer #1 · answered by Smokey 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Motowns not hip hop
2006-09-12 10:55:13 · answer #2 · answered by jazzy phay 2007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Motown is a record label, hip hop is a musical genre.
2006-09-12 10:57:04 · answer #3 · answered by Meg...Out of Hybernation 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Motown is an okay sort of Black culture music, and hip-hop is the lowest of the low, not even music at all really but just disrespectful cursing, for the most part.
2006-09-12 10:54:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
are you serious?
for one thing, they are different decades. Motown is classic R&B. Hip-hop is closer to rap. Alot of hip-hop samples Motown songs.
2006-09-12 10:59:59 · answer #5 · answered by CeCe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Motown was sweet music, hip hop is trash.
2006-09-12 10:54:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
um hip hop is yo yo yo rappy kind of stuff
while motown is soul and funk, plus come on this is one of those
omg how can someone not know this questions (lol, just research each one online im sure youll easily find the difference)
2006-09-12 10:55:31 · answer #7 · answered by bassist_of_light 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
motown is music from specifically detroit and it is dated to an extent. hip hop in everywhere and in todays mainstream.
2006-09-12 11:12:04 · answer #8 · answered by cadaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
motowns great hip hop isnt
2006-09-12 10:54:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
About 30 years.
2006-09-12 10:53:29 · answer #10 · answered by Salami and Orange Juice 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋