Urban Culture
What is urban culture(s)?
Hear the words 'urban culture,' and quite often one thinks of hip-hop, the music that is a fusion of black city culture with other ethnic elements of various cities, from Jamaican to Latino sounds. Of course, this is a single example of modern urban culture. What hip-hop shares in common with other urban cultural expressions of the past is that hip-hop is the product of fusing the diverse cultural elements of a variety of new ethnicities into a new culture. Urban culture is the result of tightly packing people into close apartment structures, neighborhoods and blocks that often allow them to be ethnically or racially 'isolated' from mainstream modern culture, yet creates a proximity that forces urban residents to adapt to a new American environment in a socially 'sharing' way.
The notion of urban culture is older than such modern-day constructions as hip-hop however. According to urban historian Stanley K. Schultz, the beginnings of formal city planning or "urban culture" began in the at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893 and the First National Conference on City Planning and the Problems of Congestion in 1909. However, Schultz traces the beginnings of what we think of as the urban environment as early as the 1820s, with the beginnings of the industrial revolution and the first floods of Irish and German immigrants into port cities such a New York. (Schultz, 1989)
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