英语词汇rap music的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

rap music; flyting. Rap music refers to popular music dating from the 1970s in which the beat provides the background for rapid, boasting, rhyming patter intoned by a singer. Though the music was mainly developed by black youths in the ghetto, one aspect of it—the insult rhymes the vocalists direct at one another—dates back at least five centuries. In times past these poetic insults were called flytings, a word meaning “word fight- ing.” Flytings (from Old English flyte, “to contend or jeer”) were contests held principally by 16th-century Scottish poets in which two persons “assailed each other alternately with ti- rades of abusive verse.” Following is one of fully 32 stanzas di- rected at Scotland’s James V by his former tutor, poet Sir David Lindsy (1490–1555). Bear in mind that this vitriolic diatribe lost the flyting contest:

词汇	rap music
词源	rap music; flyting. Rap music refers to popular music dating from the 1970s in which the beat provides the background for rapid, boasting, rhyming patter intoned by a singer. Though the music was mainly developed by black youths in the ghetto, one aspect of it—the insult rhymes the vocalists direct at one another—dates back at least five centuries. In times past these poetic insults were called flytings, a word meaning “word fight- ing.” Flytings (from Old English flyte, “to contend or jeer”) were contests held principally by 16th-century Scottish poets in which two persons “assailed each other alternately with ti- rades of abusive verse.” Following is one of fully 32 stanzas di- rected at Scotland’s James V by his former tutor, poet Sir David Lindsy (1490–1555). Bear in mind that this vitriolic diatribe lost the flyting contest: Purse-peeler, hen stealer, cat-killer, no I qyell thee; Rubiator, fornicator by nature, foul befal thee. Tyke-sticker, poisoner Vicar, Pot-licker, I mon pay thee. Jock blunt, dead Runt, I shall punt when I slay thee. See rap
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