completely unaware what their children are listening to on a daily basis. Hip-hop is special in the fact that it can evoke communication that can transcend barriers‚ and we often see that with children learn the lyrics they listen to and make it apart of their lifestyle whether it be unconsciously or consciously. A style of music created in Ghana‚ which merges hip-hop and highlife is called Hip-Life. Traditionally‚ highlife
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An importance role of hip-hop was to to bring about social change for poor‚ marginalized people of color through creating national awareness of the oppression they were experiencing at the hands of white America‚ also known as conscious rap (Orejuela‚ 2015‚ pg. 111). Since discussing social issues in hip hop music became a theme with the hope that “it may begin to saturate other arenas‚” ultimately the goal then became to‚ “dominate public‚ and especially‚ media discourse” (Forman & Neal‚ 2012‚ pg
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Reading “Before Elvis there was nothing.” John Lennon FROM AMERICANIZATION TO GLOBALIZATION I The USA‚ the country which had been an importer of influences has become in the twentieth century a major exporter of them. The whole world imports products and services from the USA. The majority of the world’s best known celebrities are from the USA. In many areas of life‚ American popular tastes and attitudes have conquered the world. The United States became the first nation in history to build
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WHAT TO KHOW ABOUT GRAFFITI I am absolutely sure that everybody here has heard words like “graffiti” or “street art”. But I’m not sure that you know the exactly meaning of it or its history. Am I right? Don’t you know? So today I will expend your knowledge about graffiti. Wikipedia tells as that Graffiti is writing or drawings scribbled‚ scratched‚ or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. I can’t contend with that‚ but I understand the word “graffiti” as something
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artists of metropolitan transit systems. The Transit services began focus on ways to stop graffiti from entering there train systems. A few more of the hard-core artists refused to stop ‘’graffing’’ and kept the art form alive. The emergence of hip-hop and hip-hop culture during the 80’s exposed graffiti to the world further more. From here it began showing up everywhere. The wide spread exposure sky rocketed graffiti into popular culture and became what it is today.
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These violent expressions are dangerous and involve not only other men‚ but can carry to the abuse of women and children. Misogyny is very present in modern day music and media. In Hip Hop the rappers tend to focus on materialism things such as money and chains. Hip Hop sends many messages to men. The men of hip hop tend to be homophobic and intolerable to of other sexualities‚ gender identity‚ and race because they are insecure with themselves and
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maintain a superb physical shape (1094). Learning new dance moves like “krumping” had allowed the pop star to maintain a healthy lifestyle through the exercise of performing the dance‚ as well as appeal to a younger generation of kids who are into hip hop (Sine). Not only would Madonna spend hours a day perfecting her dance moves‚ but many of her singles have become the soundtrack to a slew of aerobics and dance classes to this day‚ further showing her influence over the years (Sine). In her 40’s
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Task A People’s ideas about gender can be influencede by the portrayal of woman in hip-hop music videos. The videos that have been studied in class include; ‘Candy Shop’ by 50 cent‚ ‘My House’ by Flo Rida and ‘Sweat’ by Snoop Dogg. All three of these videos demonstrate women in a provocative mannar. The woman appear to all have dark skin‚ dark features‚ long legs‚ a toned body and big breats. In ‘Sweat’ by Snoop Dogg’s the lyrics state he is talking about a brown eyed girl‚ ‘I’m lookin’ in your
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call them out on their personal opinions‚ they will say‚ “It is my opinion‚ and that’s all that matters.” In Paul Kix’s article “Hip-Hop Is No Longer Cooler than Me‚” he states his opinion about the fact that Hip-Hop has lost its value and coolness. In his view‚ Hip-Hop used to mean something. Nowadays people just rap about nonsense. Kix’s own personal view of hip-hop is his opinion‚ but other people might totally differently. However‚ in Joan Ryan’s article “We Are Not Created Equal in Every
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MC Lyte‚ and Queen Latifa have all been linked to ghostwriting rumors. Hip-hop pop star Nicki Minaj has battled ghostwriting rumors over the recent years‚ but the general consensus seems to be regardless of having help we all know she can write. Would Nicki be less of an artist if she was proven to have written “Monster”‚ but received help for a single like “Starships”? Nicki is one of the acts currently bigger than hip-hop‚ and it is looking like Atlantic is planning to make Cardi B the next pop
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