The Influence Of The Boom Box On African American Culture

Artifacts come in so many shapes and sizes, different aspects of life and they also remind different cultures what happened in the past and how to learn for the future. The boom box is one of those artifacts that are present in history, since there are so many developments that occurred after this development of the boom box. It holds a strong memory of where African Americans have come from and what they have done to created expressions for every culture to express the feelings that they are having.
The African American culture has so many different artifacts that represent its culture and the one the stands out the most is hip hop music. I consider this to be an artifact because it has the power of knowing how a person is feeling. You can
The best way to listen to hip hop music was through the boom box which transformed over time into the stereo, cassette player, cd player, mp3, player and now even your phone can play music but the boom box was the start of all this. The Boom box was invented in 1975 by The Woelfel brothers (When was it invented.org). The actual date of hip hop cannot be fully determined but it can be narrowed down to the early 1980’s. Many African Americans so that the only way to be heard by others was through music, since music was heard by all through radio, cassette tapes, cd’s and live performances. The boom box is an artifact because it could be carried around transporting the musical expressions wherever a person went even if other people did not want to hear the music they had no choice. With the creation of the boom box one is also to think about hip hop since the two go hand in hand. Hip hop was the