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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walked on this earth‚ music has been an important part of our culture and lifestyles. Each walk of life beats to a different drum. Different cultures use music for many aspects of their lives; for religious purposes‚ for celebrations‚ for comfort‚ for sorrow‚ for relaxation‚ for sports‚ for dances‚ for energy‚ for learning‚ for sleeping‚ and for sexual experiences. Everyone uses music for something. Music connects with people and reaches them in ways that words simply cannot. Music is a representation
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What is Hip Hop? Hip hop is a style of dance that combines movements such as popping‚ locking‚ breaking‚ krumping‚ and jazz-funk. Hip hop is used to express individuality and has often been credited with helping to reduce inner-city gang violence by replacing violence with dance battles. What is Contemporary Dance? Contemporary dance is a style that lets you express yourself‚ has a lot of versatility and improvisation‚ unlike the strict and structured nature of ballet. Contemporary dance focuses
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Hip-hop is one of the biggest and popular music genres in the world. Hip Hop is a genre that a person on a microphone is rhyming over a beat. Hip-Hop has been around over 40 years and has created different movement throughout the years. A few movements are the Native tongues‚ Roc a fella‚ and Young money. But the biggest movement is when Hip Hop all started. When Hip-Hop first came out‚ it helped all the African American unified with one another and even Puerto Ricans. To begin with‚ Kool Herc created
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The Influence of Hip-Hop on Young adults Hip-hop is a new type of music that has been gradually increasing in popularity in the past three decades And like other music it can be very influential‚ and hip-hop has been anything but short on that. From sculpting the way modern day youth speak and introducing words that are used in everyday talk nowadays to how the youth may even dress or act. But are these influences on our youth positive or negative? There are critics that argue that people who listen
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“Woman in Hip-Hop” Although hip-hop generally contains male emcees‚ there has been a plethora of female emcees in the earlier hip-hop days that have made a positive impact on the hip-hop community and the culture itself. Hip-Hop started in 1970 by DJ Kool Herc‚ but it wasn’t until 1979 that the first female emcee emerged. Her name was Wendy Clark A.K.A “Lady B”. She began spinning hip-hop records on WHAT 1340 AM in Philadelphia. She expanded hip-hop outside of New York to Philadelphia.
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One of the main genres in music is Hip-Hop/R&B‚ because it is pop culture and a huge part of the youth community today. This genre has a good beat to it and it is easy to listen to and the lyrics relate to the lives of its listeners. Artists in the Hip-Hop/R&B genre portray sex in many different styles. Some artists use a romantic style while others use a humorous style that is very vivid. Artists choose to write about sex in their lyrics because it is controversial and it draws the attention of
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Jordan Royse According to KRS One‚ Hip Hop fashion is one of the nine "extended" elements of hip-hop culture. Hip-hop fashion refers to a particular style of dress that originated with African-American and Latino people in New York City. Hip hop fashion has changed drastically over the years. During the 1980s‚ major hip-hop stars of like Run-DMC and LL Cool J wore things like large glasses‚ kangol hats‚ multi-finger rings‚ and sneakers. Artists such as Kurtis Blow and Big Daddy
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What Effect Does the Music Censorship Has on today’s Society? This Topic Interest Me A lot Because A lot Of Society Problems Comes from the Censorship in Todays Music. I Have Many Questions about the Censorship in Today’s Music‚ Is Half of the Violence That Is Going on in the African American Community’s From the Censorship in Today’s Music? Is The Music Censorship Influences The Lives Of Many People? Is The Censorship In Todays Music Is The Cause Of Violence All Together? Do Many People Try To
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