PAPER #3 In Beyond Beats and Rhymes‚ filmmaker Byron Hurt challenges hip-hop musicians and fans to start thinking "outside the box." The box that Byron is speaking of is that they write songs about bitches‚ hoes‚ drugs and killing others‚ in other words objectifying women and masculinity. In order to support his thesis that hip-hop has changed dramatically from its original roots‚ he went to Florida for an event being held by a popular hip hop network. While at this event he greatly proves his
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recognizing how we are”‚ which was once said by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.In other words this quote is saying that the world promotes people to cover up their true selves to be the “right” figure for the certain gender .In the documentary Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes by Byron Hurt it speaks out about how in music videos male have the more dominant power and girls are just seen as props or sex objects‚and females are called out of the names because they don’t dress like a lady.In the book We should all
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Is Hip-Hop Culture Really Dead? From Jamilah Evelyn’s “The Miseducation of Hip-Hop-Discrimination in Education”‚ Jason Hinmon talked about his personal experience as an African American student. As a senior in college he transferred to University of Delaware. Here‚ he felt abandoned and out of character. Hinmon felt that people‚ including the professors at University of Delaware‚ judged him of his dark skin and dreaded hair. Though the teachers thought he was some hip-hop criminal who is an unmotivated
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creating a new way to express themselves and their frustrations. They spoke of the difficulties of a “hard” life and some of the experiences they were forced to go through. Some of which were poverty‚ racism‚ and peer pressures. They began combining beats and words together to form hip-hop. The music was played a lot at parties in The Bronx‚ in so called "block parties" and it took off on to be one of the greatest cultures in the United States. Hip-hop music began as said in the 1970s‚ but the late
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janell hobson and r. dianne bartlow Introduction Representin’: Women‚ Hip-Hop‚ and Popular Music As coeditors of this special issue of Meridians‚ we set out to provide a forum to enrich‚ challenge‚ and expand the present discourse regarding the representation of women in contemporary popular music‚ and particularly in hip-hop. This issue’s three organizing themes—“Hip-Hop (and) Feminism”; “Sight and Sound”; and “Rage against the Machine”—address the debates and intergenerational tensions regarding
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Rhyme Plan introduction 1. Definition and function of rhyme. 2. History. 3. Types of rhyme. 4. Conclusion. 5. Addition. 1. Definition and function of rhyme. Rhyme is the correspondence of two or more words with similar-sounding final syllables placed so as to echo one another. Rhyme is used by poets and occasionally by prose writers to produce sounds appealing to the reader’s senses and to unify and establish a poem’s stanzaic form. Rhyme is the repetition of identical or similar terminal
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chosen hiphop as a mean of expressing themselves. Hiphop was originated from Harlem‚ the ghetto located in New York city‚ during the 1970s. Severe racism existed at that time‚ so they expressed their fear for the society in their lyrics‚ accompanying with some dances‚ to expressed their desire for the freedom. Although it somehow looks queer and bizarre‚ African americans also had certain constraint and rules in their wrapping: Hiphop was more like a poem‚ rappers made their lyrics rhyme and used
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Sociology of Hip Hop Hip hop itself is a hustle and rappers have used it as a legitimate mean to make money and to establish a Black economic power in a mainstream society (Garnes‚ 2009). This being said‚ hustling was rooted in the poor urban communities of the United States and was a viable alternative for those reprimanded by the oppression exerted from the White America. Hip Hop was their voice‚ and through this art each artists has engaged the image of the black hustler into their music
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Nursery Rhymes- The Origin What do I say about nursery rhymes? We have grown up reciting them. They were and are an important part of our childhood. We sung them during class‚ at home‚ in front of guests‚ in the playground and a lot of us sing them even today. Nursery rhymes were like the first form of music that we learnt and to a 3 year old‚ I bet they are like the Beatles or ABBA or even Taylor Swift! But‚ recently‚ I have been wondering whether or rather WHAT these rhymes mean because‚ to
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A hip-hop pioneer and savvy business mogul by the name of Russell Simmons believed that Hip-hop "speaks for the people who live in the worst economic straits since the Great Depression" (Life and Def: Sex‚ Drugs‚ Money‚ + God 26). A scholar by the name of Cornell West also believed hip-hop speaks for those that live in the ghetto‚ that it is a protest (Reese‚ 1998). Hip-hop is an expression. The hardened attitude that the boy who sits behind you in film class has‚ the slang you here kids yell at
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