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has gloss | eng: Chinese hip hop (Chinese: 嘻哈; pinyin xīha ) is a relatively new phenomenon; in Chinese music; “hip-hop in Beijing emerged around the year 2000, but its roots stretch back to the late 1980s.” Some of the earliest influences of hip-hop in Beijing came from movies such as Wild Style (1982) and Breakin' (1984), which arrived via trade and travel with Japan and Hong Kong. The Chinese term for rap is shuōchàng (Simplified Chinese: 说唱; literally "narrative," actually the name of a traditional genre of narrative singing). |
lexicalization | eng: Chinese hip hop |
lexicalization | eng: Chinese hip-hop |
instance of | c/Chinese styles of music |
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