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rap music and oral literacy  

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  • Rap music, also referred to as MCing or “rhyming,” is one of the original elements of hip hop culture. The other elements of hip hop culture include graffiti art or “graf writing”; DJing, or “turntabling”; and breakdancing, also known as “breakin,” popularized by “b-boys” and “b-girls” since hip hop's origination in the early 1970s in the South and West Bronx. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; Rap Music and Oral Literacy]

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