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Hip Hop Culture Make A Profit
1,881 wordsWhen you hear the phrase "Hip-Hop", music, dancing, rapping often come to mind. Well, it's all of that and more... Hip-Hop is a culture. According to Webster's dictionary, culture is defined as "the concepts, habits, skills, arts, instruments, institutions, etc. of a given people in a given period; civilization. " One artist defined Hip-Hop as "a set of expressions in vocalization, instrumentation, dancing and the visual arts. " More specifically, hip hop is a combination of graffiti, break danc...
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Rap Music Break Dancing
3,653 wordsRap music is truly an American minority artist creation of which students need to be proud. Unfortunately, rap music is not perceived by many Americans as an art form, but as a fad which they hope will soon fade away. One of my intentions with my unit is to show that rap music is not a fad, but a musical art form that has been around for over 20 years in the United States. In fact, one can trace the history of rap back to the West African professional singers / storytellers known as Griots. Howe...
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Public Property Graffiti Gang
526 wordsGraffiti, the tagging of property without the permission of property owners, is a crime. Tagging has been the most common form graffiti for the last decade. While the label is often applied generically, those are involved in graffiti scene of city identity. A number of different names of various style of graffiti currently in use. Research evidence strongly supports that the urban decay graffiti encourages if left unchecked... Because it fosters impressions that the crime is rift, the seemingly ...
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The Origins Of Hip Hop And Rap
983 wordsIn the late 1970 s a new, popular form of urban youth culture emerged in the Bronx, New York that changed the face of popular music and American culture. Throughout its development, hip-hop has become a vastly commercialized, inextricable component of popular American culture; however, it took the efforts of many pioneers and innovators to shape modern hip-hop culture and music. By exploring hip-hops origins, one can better understand its evolution and its influence on different social groups th...
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Made Way To New York Cornbread And Cool Earl Writers
1,260 wordsThe history of the underground art movement known by many names, most commonly graffiti begins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the mid to late 60 's, and started with bombing. The writers who are credited with the first effort are CORNBREAD and COOL EARL. They wrote their names all over the city gaining attention from the community and the local press. Then the movement made way to New York City where the teenagers would write graffiti on the subways. It is unclear whether this concept made...
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20 Th Century Form Of Expression
2,400 wordsFive forms of expression that I have selected for my essay are music, architecture, car design, graffiti, and animation. In my opinion, they all together represent America in the best way. To understand this it is enough just to think what a regular American does every day. He or she drives car to work or elsewhere, listens to music, observes buildings and graffiti on their walls, and in the evening watches TV. In my essay, I will try to examine these five forms of expression and their influence...
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Form Of Art Taking Place
1,500 wordsDouglas Barmore What constitutes as graffiti? Graffiti is defined as any type of writing on a surface of any type. If that is the case, then would a cave mans drawings be considered graffiti? If it is considered graffiti, then what is different about then and now that would change the worlds views about graffiti. Why is graffiti against the law? Is graffiti an art form? Can something that is done against the law, and with a total disregard for others property be considered art? The definition of...
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Graffiti Vandals Graffiti Hotline Paint
255 wordsIn the United States there is 6 billion dollars in graffiti related vandalism every year and over a million dollars in Phoenix alone. Of course there is no way to stop it but there are ways to prevent, control and cut the cleanup cost in our city. I will explain some of the methods in use already and others that should be put to use. The first method, is to pass a law making all stores lock up and restrict the sale of spray paint to any one under 18. Having stores lock up spray paint prevents gr...
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