Christopher Blair 4/25/2013 Question 11 English 12 The authors views of music videos and the hip hop commitment is sexist. She makes points on hose hip-hop in general degrades woman and demoralizes them in a derogatory way. I would like to touch base on the same subject matter but shed light in a different point of view. What the author lacked is a first hand opinion of woman who actually do this for a living‚ and try to understand where they are coming from?. From my point of view music
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reference to hip-hop. I: Introduction Increasingly over the past twenty years‚ hip-hop has transformed from “marginalised to mainstream” (Motley & Henderson‚ 2008‚ p.243) as more and more of the world’s youth follow the genre. With these growing numbers all over the world there is simultaneously growing concern that hip-hop is increasingly homogenised as artists adopt the genre. This essay will address both the homogenous and hybrid aspects of hip-hop‚ arguing that true hip-hop must contain
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February 15‚ 2012 The Positives and Negatives of Hip-Hop In Geoffrey Bennett’s essay titled‚ “Hip-Hop: A Roadblock or Pathway to Black Empowerment‚” he speaks about the positive and negative effects that hip-hop has on the Black Community. Bennett goes all the way to the beginning of hip-hop‚ which he says took place in the early 1980s with rappers such as Run DMC‚ Public Enemy‚ Sugar Hill Gang and many others. The author then speaks about how hip-hop grew not only in the young black African American
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Alessi The article ’’Hip-Hop Causes Violence‚’’ focuses on society’s generalization that rap music promotes‚ encourages‚ and thus causes violence. For the most part‚ the author of the article defends the genre‚ claiming that there is limited evidence that supports the argument that listening to violent storytelling has a direct effect on everyday life‚ which scientifically is very hard to prove. The author states that there are many other forms of entertainment outside of hip-hop that encourage violence
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Rap was first known as “Hip Hop”. It was first created between 1960-1970 by African American and Latino youth living in the Bronx in New York. These youths were living in very poor conditions in the gang infested inner city. Originally it allowed these economically challenged youth to fantasize about getting out of poverty. It was a “rags to riches”. They were living in very violent areas and there was also a lot of gang activity. Hip Hop also exploited young African American girls and encouraged
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The Hip Hop Defense Everyone has an opinion about the influence of hip--hop music on our nations youth. Many people‚ such as politicians and the ultra conservative‚ feel the influence is destructive and incites violent behavior. Some people‚ for instance the media‚ believe hip- hop glamorizes inappropriate behaviors and actions while promoting the demoralization of women in general‚ but more specifically black women. Few people are willing to speak out and defend hip-hop music as communicative
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Hip-hop Many view the influence of hip hop music and culture as negative‚ degrading‚ promoting crime and generating‚ a generation of reckless young individuals. I was among the many‚ however after viewing the documentary of “The Art of Rap” my perception has slightly changed. The five elements of hip hop which is knowledge‚ writing‚ emceeing‚ rhyming‚ and style‚ does make hip hop an art indeed‚ which I think‚ many artists have not considered the impact. So much of the language is degrading to
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Hip Hop America Nelson George’s Hip Hop America discusses the nature of hip hop along with the relationship between African Americans and America. Many take the idea of hip hop to be just African Americans and rap music. George continually focuses on hip hop’s many contradictions. He addresses how hip hop represents race‚ ethnicity‚ class‚ gender‚ and generation. George covers much familiar ground: how B-beats became hip hop; how technology changed popular music‚ which helped to create new technologies;
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Hip Hop is the great American paradox. A culture encompasses art‚ politics‚ and all things intertwined with urban life‚ and gives a platform for the populace of American poverty. Hip Hop is a blurred culture in the sense that it distinctly represents a social and ethnic class‚ and also indistinctly perceives a negative stereotype of these classes to a detached or unconcerned bystanders‚ that brandish Hip Hop as a dysphemism; an expression so substituted and contemptuous of themselves and to the greater
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In the following essay I will be applying Arjun Appadurai’s theory of global cultural flows and social imagination to the two African hip hop case studies written by Kunzler and Badsha. I will be analysing the case studies with regard to Appadurai and his theories. Appadurai’s theory was to look at the effects of globalisation on culture and how it has affected the society. He makes five very important points towards global cultural flows. He thought of it as different streams that flow into and
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