Hip-Hop as a Commodity As Alexis de Tocqueville stated in a description about Americans‚ “the recollection of the shortness of life is a constant spur to him. Besides the good things that he possesses‚ he every instantly fancies a thousand others that death will prevent him from trying if he does not try them soon.” In a country that promoted commodification and mass production‚ American society thrived on its quest for new and exciting things. Nearly two centuries after his report‚ what was
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Thomas Runyan Comparison Paragraph Dr. Andrews Mar 22‚ 2011 Hip Hop and its Rap Culture counterpart comparison It was 1977‚ and the Summer of Sam was in full swing in New York. But in the neighborhoods and housing projects of the “boogie down” Bronx New York‚ a new art form was developing called Hip Hop. This new art form would change America and transcend a generation forever with its influences on fashion‚ music‚ and lifestyle. Hip Hop is an urban lifestyle that consists of different subgenres
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listen to good beats and experience art happening before their own eyes. Herc would be performing and crowds would break out into dancing and spray-painting. Many such as Flash‚ did not understand or respect the correlation spray-painting had to the Hip Hop culture‚ but they were strategically tied to one another. Also‚ according to Flash‚ the dance style called break-dancing was “a way of expressing how the music sounds”. It was also a form of physical competition and displaying a style of dance as
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that throughout colonial history the white body has been represented as the most appealing. This is supported by Hooks (1981) who stated that the hating of blackness is a clear manifestation of white supremacy . These damaging images of Hip Hop music reinstate negative ideas from colonial periods where light skinned slaves were seen as superior to dark skinned slaves. Multiple black women feel such as a sense of self-hate they feel the need to alter their skin tone to fit in with
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Misogyny in Hip Hop | 3.5.2012Dr. Tshombe WalkerAFR 1503 | Tina Marie | Misogyny in Hip Hop culture refers to lyrics‚ videos‚ or other aspects of hip hop culture that support‚ glorify‚ justify or normalize the objectification‚ exploitation or victimization of women. Misogyny in hip hop music instills and perpetuates negative stereotypes about women. It can range from innuendos to stereotypical characterizations and defamations. Overt misogyny in rap and hip hop music emerged in the
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Rap and hip-hop first started to come together in the 1970 ’s‚ but didn ’t really materialize and become popular until the 1990 ’s. With a huge surge in popularity and growth in the 1990 ’s‚ it seemed that rap and hip-hop had started a cultural phenomenon that still has noticeable effects easily seen today in music and also in pop culture. A cultural phenomenon is an idea‚ trend‚ or movement that shapes and defines that time period. During the 1990 ’s‚ rap and hip-hop spread like wild fire across
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entitled nHip Hop Planet‚" by James Mcbride‚ he explains that the planet we live on has become a hip hop planet. Hip Hop dominates this world. Hip Hop represents for more than the stereotype of gold chains and foreign cars. Hip Hop represents for different ages and cultures. Music is a big part of the average person’s life but hip hop influences their music playlist. Hip Hop also allows people to be creative and express themselves while possibly making a living off of it because of the Hip Hop planet we
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“Black Women VS Hip-Hop” Crystal Smith once wrote that “Images of black women in hip-hop culture make it more likely for them to be viewed as targets to be defaced and abused.” This statement is confirmed true there are many African American women in the hip-hop culture that are disrespected or abused in some type of way during the making of a video or even the lyrics of a song. There are many ways African American women of the hip-hop culture are being abused and disrespected. Some video women
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How does Hip Hop Cause Violence? “They say I’m all about murder murder and kill kill‚ But what about Grindhouse and Kill Bill? What about Cheney and Halliburton? The back door deals on oil fields? How is Nas the most violent person?” – Nas The first chapter of Tricia’s Rose The Hip Hop Wars debates about the issues of violence in the urban America and its association with hip hop. Rose explain that there are five central elements that are the underlying factors of the destruction of minority communities
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KRS One once said‚ "Rap is something you do‚ Hip-Hop is something you live." The difference between how Hip-Hop is portrayed (rap) and what the Hip-Hop movement is‚ is that Hip-Hop is a lifestyle but the Hip-Hop we see on television is a media creation. We have to look at hip-hop as a whole culture and rap as something that comes out of it. Although Hip-Hop was originated by a mostly Negro constituency‚ it has evolved since its creation into a "worldwide forum through which family‚ community‚ social
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