Blues and Conscious Hip Hop Connection Conscious Hip-hop is the modern form of the blues. Both genres of music express the hardships of the African American people in their respective time periods or explain the culture surrounding the artist and/or their community. Through their lyrics‚ the artists from the two genres are able to spread the culture and experiences of the black race. Elements of the blues are rooted in African culture. The blues is one of the most influential styles
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controversial messages in hip-hip and rap lyrics Though Franklin B. Krohn and Frances L. Suazo portray hip-hop and rap as a protest to racism‚ poverty‚ and glorifying the drug dealing and gangster lifestyle I completely disagree with their views. Hip-hop and rap is way of life for young black men and women. It’s a language for not only blacks but white people that truly understand the content of the lyrics. Krohn and Suazo wrote‚ “More recently‚ the term hip-hop describes a culture‚ superficially characterized
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My first semester as an ACE mentor‚ I am mentoring an LCS class American Hip-hop experience with Professor Tony Clark an English professor. I introduce myself to the students as an ACE mentor and my role in the class. The first three classes were kind of cold for everybody in the class‚ everyone was kind of trying to understand each other. I took another approach which eventually paid off. The approach was that I go to the class 15-20 minutes before the class starts to welcome the students and engage
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Black American Music History First of all‚ there is many different types of African American music but im going to talk about three in particular which are slave spirituals‚ blues‚ and the more common rap/hip-hop. First slave spirituals is a type of religious song originating among black slaves in the American south. It was famous for the reason that the lyrics of negro spirituals were tightly linked with the lives of their authors.... slaves! While work songs only dealt with their daily
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Music is everywhere you look. Turn on the T.V. and you can’t help but hear a theme song for a show‚ or a commercial featuring an up-and coming band. The largest portion of these ads take take their choice of music from Indie-rock and the Rap / Hip-hop musical genres. It is impossible to avoid (not that you are trying) because it is in all areas and facets of everyday life. These ads all focus on getting your attention with the music. The music keeps you interested in the ads. In turn‚ you sit though
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Miller 1 Is Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap Negatively Affecting Today’s Youth? Rap music has been around since the 1970’s. People have questioned why it has only recently gotten such bad publicity. Denise Herd did a study on rap and hip hop music to determine if the lyrics in rap music have increasingly gotten worse in promoting sexism and violence. In her study she “examined 130 platinum (rap) albums with 430 songs released from 1992 to 2002 using Anderson’s conceptualization of ‘the street code’ and
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Part One In the article “The Hip Hop Impact on Japanese Youth Culture”‚ the author‚ Xuexing Liu‚ addresses the idea that hip hop has a global influence on youth culture and he portrays it by describing how hip hop has affected Japanese youth. Liu is an associate professor of Japanese which suggests that he might be quite knowledgeable with regards to Japanese society’s traditions and cultures. This is evident from the various in-depth examples that he has inserted into many parts of the article
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Lindy Hop is a jazz dance or “Swing” dance that originated in Harlem‚ New York at a popular club named the Savoy ballroom. How the Lindy hop received its name is debatable. Many believe the name came from a headline in the newspaper about Charles Lindbergh’s famous flight to Paris in 1927 and others believe it was named after a woman named Lindy. Regardless of how the Lindy Hop received its name‚ the new fast paced dance quickly became an American phenomenon. By the mid 1920’s the Lindy Hop became
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Plan of Investigation It is through Gangsta Rap subgenre of Hip-Hop‚ that the question: “What were the underlying cultural reasons for the Los Angeles Riots of 1992?” can be answered. This paper will examine rap lyrics from prominent Los Angeles Hip-Hop acts in order to investigate the deteriorating rapport between the city’s oft-biased police department and the city’s increasingly restless black urban youth‚ from the perspective of the latter group. These lyrics will be juxtaposed with statements
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“Chicken Hips” In the article‚ “Chicken Hips‚” the Canadian narrator‚ Catherine Pigott gives us the different cultural views between Canada and Africa; mainly the societies’ views regarding beauty and image. In the early 1980s Pigott goes to Gambia‚ Africa to experience a new culture. Pigott faced trouble when she first went to Gambia because she had many problems adjusting to a new society and new people. When looking around at everyone‚ she saw that everyone was “big.” Men and women had thick
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