Tupac Shakur Famous rap artist Tupac Shakur was born June 16‚ 1971. He grew up in the west Harlem of New York City. Tupac Shakur began his career as a MC for the hip hop group Digital Underground ‚and then started to begin his solo career as a rap artist . Tupac Shakur’s songs started to become popular when his songs was about the violence in cities‚ racism and many other different problems. Both of his parents and other people in his family were in the Black Panther.Tupac Shakur lived in
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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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How has our understanding of ‘race’ been shaped and influenced by mass media in America in relation to hip-hop? Mass media‚ through its selective portrayal of hip-hop has played a crucial role in the way that it has been understood and interpreted over time. The media’s focus on negative aspects of the genre has led to the establishment of a two-class system. This brings forward the theories of Karl Marx in relation to the ‘two-class system’. The media also portrays the dominance of capitalism
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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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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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class‚ I was quite hesitant because of the amount of work that will be expected to be completed in just a few weeks. However‚ I learned a lot about the different artist and how they use hip hop‚ poetry‚ dance art to express their feelings in their work. I also learned the meaning of dance‚ according to Camille Brown dance is a language. While dancing‚ it becomes a way of communicating through movement without words. I also learned about two important African American women‚ Gertude and Bessie Smith and
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Minstrel Shows and Hip-Hop the Degradation of the African American Culture For the y2k generation‚ Hip-Hop Music has been the center of popularity and interest. In the late 1800’s Minstrel shows served the same purpose. Throughout the various generations music and theatre have had a large impact throughout the community. However this impact is not always positive. What was originated as positive became negative very quickly. The minstrel show‚ which was originally intended to be harmless
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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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Dance 10: Quiz 1-5 Part 1 of 1 Multiple Choice/True False Score: 50 (of possible 50 points) (ADDIONAL) Question 1 of 25 Score: 2 (of possible 2 points) The French court ballet reached its height during the reign of Louis XIV‚ whose very birth had been celebrated by the _______________ of 1639. A. Ballet de la Félicité B. Ballet de la coutisane appelé C. Ballet de Madame D. Ballet de la Déliverance de Renaud ANS:A The dancers in the earliest ballets were highly skilled
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several dance styles that are related‚ such as ballet‚ tap‚ and the African-American rhythms-and-dance styles. This dance form originated in the late 1800s. The trend took time to catch on‚ but eventually did by the mid 1900s. Till the 1950s‚ jazz dancing was largely referred to as tap dancing‚ because of the routines set to jazz music. The Jazz Age was characterized by the popularity of dance forms such as the Cakewalk‚ Charleston‚ Jitterbug‚ Black Bottom‚ Boogie Woogie‚ and the Lindy Hop. These
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