Bounce music Bounce music Is an energetic style

Bounce music

Bounce music Is an energetic style of hip-hop music which originated New Orleans during the 1980 s. Popular bounce artists include: DJ Jubilee, Partners-N-Crime, Magnolia Shorty and usic across the charts. Big Freeedia. After the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, many bounce-music artists spread around the country as they were dispersed to other major cities. Today, elements of bounce can be found in music across the charts. They all have first paced beats and a lot of repetitive lyrics.

History As hip-hop spread from its birthplace in the Bronx, New York one of the first places to embrace and advance it was New Orleans. Local producers and record labels who previously got success with ‘black’ genres began to try out hip-hop but soon a new generation got involved. The local artists were able to express their local hip-hop sensibility and reference the city's neighbourhoods and other poor/working class areas where hip- hop originated from. One of the first bounce artists was Kevin “MC T. Tucker” Ventry who captured the attention of the city in 1991. New Orleans have a long standing tradition of gay/cross dressing performers. This gives bounce music a strong overlap with LGBT Hip-Hop, including artists sucha s Big Freedia, Sissy Nobby and Vockah Redu. It flourished in the city with little national recognition. Soon it took over the as a result of artisrts such as Birdman and Mannie Fresh. “become progressively more tenuous as their national exposure and wealth increased”

Structure -Usually characterised by call-and-response style and mardi gras indian chants ( mardi gras Indians are a black carnival performers in New Orleans, Louisiana, who dress up for mardi gras in suits influenced by Native Americsn ceremonial clothes. ) - Defined by a stead, lively tempo (95 -105 bpm) and heavy brass band beats. - These chants are frequently hypersexual - Chants and call outs are typically sung over the ‘triggerman beat’ - Whistling is often used as an instrumental element - Typically bounce music ‘shouts out’ or acknowledges geographical areas, neighbourhoods, and housing products, particularly in New Orleans. - Drums and synthesisers are also used

Big Freedia Big Freeedia, also known as “the queen” of New Orleans Bounce music, she helped popularize the genre by bringing it to a wider audience, influencing a lot of hip hop and R&B music. She subverts stereotypes in hip-hop as she helped the genre become the progressive and inclusive style it is today. She first gained mainstream exposure in 2009 and in 2010 her album Big Freedia Hits Vol 1 was released.

‘Bounce’ music’s relevance to Formation – Beyonce The voiceover at the start of the music video is the voice of Big Freedia. Formation was filmed in her hometown New Orleans Beyonce used footage from a 2014 short film on the Big Easy’s bounce scene The song’s tempo is reminiscent to the lively, fast Bounce tempo with 123 beats per minute. The instrumental also uses synthesizers.