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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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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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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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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The stories “Hop-Frog” and “The Masque of Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe are similar based on the presence of vengeance and gothic elements. The stories “Hop-Frog” and “The Masque of Red Death” both are based on vengeance. Hop-Frog is a very shy dwarf who always listens to the King. Later on in the story‚ Hop-Frog gets very inflamed at the King when he throws a goblet at Trippetta’s face. In the text it states‚ “It was interrupted by a low‚ but harsh and protracted grating sound which seemed to come
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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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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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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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Monique Morris March 22‚ 2013 Bitch Bad “Bitch Bad” is popular hip-hop song performed by Chicago native rapper‚ Lupe Fiasco. The song depicts the word bitch in the many forms that it is used in today’s urban society. The song starts with a dark weary synthesizer and a heavy deep 808 drum pattern that reflects the sound that is used in many of today’s popular club/party songs. The words to the song shine a stereotypical light on “bad bitches‚” but there is a twist. Fiasco highlights 3 significant
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Foster (2005) implemented a randomized control study that examined whether removing particular postoperative function restrictions (PFR) reduced the incidence of hip dislocations. Foster (2005) followed 265 patients that received an uncemented THA and divided the patients into two evenly distributed groups: patients who had PFR and patients who were not PFR. The criteria for PFR was that the patients were to use an abduction pillow while in bed‚ restrict the patient from driving an automobile‚ patients
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