<span><span><span>Connecting classic rhythm & blues and rock & roll to the Civil Rights Movement, and classic soul and funk to the Black Power Movement, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Hip Hop Movement </span><span>critically explores what each of these musics and movements’ contributed to rap, neo-soul, hip hop culture, and the broader Hip Hop Movement. Ultimately, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Hip Hop Movement</span><span> reveals that black popular music and black popular culture have always been more than merely “popular music” and “popular culture” in the conventional sense and most often reflect a broader social, political, and cultural movement.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span></span>