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Rage Against The Machine Chili Peppers
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546 wordsThe music genre defined as hip-hop, or rap, has been gaining a lot of attention over the past twenty years. In their articles, J. Victoria Sanders (Horizon), Allison Samuels, N'Gai Croal, David Gates (Newsweek), and an unknown author (Time), discuss the changing faces of hip-hop and its effects on today's society. One specific aspect of hip-hop music that all of the writers agree on is that the references to sex, violence, and the bad attitudes towards the female species are getting worse and so...
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American History Of Hip Hop Culture
1,378 wordsHip-hop culture developed during the seventies. Throughout its formation, the various elements were at some time or another, deemed unacceptable. Graffiti artists faced jail sentences, break dancing became illegal in some areas, and rap music has been severely criticized for various reasons. These elements were never analyzed in an oppositional manner until recently, however. Hip-hop culture represented the claiming of urban communities by the residents. Writers decorated the empty walls of thei...
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The Origins Of Hip Hop And Rap
1,073 words... s be considered the original founder of rap music, because the DJ created the sound responsible for rap. Of the many influential DJs that have been given credit for founding raps unique sound, perhaps none were as significant as Clive Campbell (a. k. a. Kool Herc), who is credited with inventing the breakbeat (Rhodes). Herc immigrated to the West Bronx from Jamaica in 1967 (Unofficial Timeline). He was nicknamed Hercules or Herc for short because of his athletic talents (Rhodes). In 1973, He...
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896 wordsDespite the tremendous growth of hip hop music during the late 1980 s, it was not until the early 1990 s that the first album of Tanzanian rap appeared. Saleh Aljabry (otherwise known as Saleh J) released the first Tanzanian rap album, Swahili Rap. The album immediately became a sensation all over the country and, in many ways, set a high standard for future Tanzanian tappers. Most of the songs were based on the music and rhythms of American artists, such as Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" and Naug...
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745 wordsHow Break Dancing is being used as a political vehicle. Dancing is one of the oldest ways to express emotions. It is unknown where and when first dance was actually danced. Maybe this happened in some cave after the successful hunt on mammoth, nobody knows. Dance can be relaxing, or seductive, or angry, or sad. Like a code written on the body, dance is an essay, epic, novel, or poem about culture articulated through the vehicle of the body. Pointing out gender, ethnicity, and class as an inheren...
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Visual And Audio Materials In Hip Hop Industry
1,746 wordsVisual and Audio Materials in Hip-Hop Industry Hip hop music and culture, once considered an American phenomenon, exists throughout the world today. In each cultural area, hip hop artists filter American and other foreign hip hop styles through their own local musical, social, and linguistic practices, creating unique musical forms. In this paper I will attempt to evaluate the visual and audio characteristics that contribute to the culture of hip-hop and produce the image of the aforementioned s...
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780 wordsThe Hip-Hop/Rock Phenomenon It seems as though you can barely read a magazine or flip on the television without hearing about one of these new hip-hop / rock groups. Media outlets such as Rolling Stone and MTV treat these bands as though miraculously created this? new? genre of music. Acts such as Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock and Sugar Ray are treated though they are creative geniuses when in reality they are only doing things that have already been done before. True some of these new bands are very ta...
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Hip Hop Culture Hip Hop Music
3,134 wordsRoughly fifteen years ago, the initial rumblings of rap music were emanating from the streets of New York City. Rap music is very much a product of its urbanized, literacy-based environment, as can be seen in the advanced technology necessary to produce the music. Although the connection between rap music and its modern roots is impossible to ignore, raps dependence upon high technology is often over-emphasized, eclipsing any opportunity to connect rap culture to a time before the world of turnt...
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Spread Spectrum Packet Switching
5,050 wordsWireless Technology Applied To Computer Processing Essay, Wireless Technology Applied To Computer Processing Wireless Technology applied to Computer Processing Abstract Wireless technology can provide many benefits to computing including faster response to queries, reduced time spent on paperwork, increased online time for users, just-in-time and real time control, tighter communications between clients and hosts. Wireless Computing is governed by two general forces: Technology, which provides a...
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913 wordsOften times when people hear about Hip Hop/Rap music, theyll paint a picture in their heads of black men cussing, guns, marijuana, lots of gold, and girls looking like prostitutes. Parents and teachers put an image in their kids head that Rap music is bad, and they dont want their kids to be influenced by something that is negative. With the way Rap music is advertised in the US, I would have to agree with that looking at it from an average parents point of view. But what people dont know is tha...
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2,895 wordsRAP MUSIC Popular culture is defined as the ordinary culture people make for themselves (McLeish, 1993). From the nineteenth century onward the term popular culture took on new meaning, referring to pop culture as somewhat beneath higher culture (1993). In other words, things that the common people enjoyed were looked down upon as opposed to say, opera, cricket or intellectual pursuits. Popular culture belonged to the common man whereas the higher forms of entertainment were enjoyed by the upper...
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1,018 wordsBorn Lawrence Parker in Park Slope, Brooklyn in the summer of 1965, the rapper left home at 14 to play basketball and read books free of the gaze of the authorities (his mother and the New York City public school system). He landed in a homeless shelter in the South Bronx, where he was dubbed Krishna by residents because of his interest in the Hare Krishna spirituality of some of the antipoverty workers. By the time Krishna met youth counselor Scott Sterling, he was also writing graffiti as KRS-...
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Poe Reader
1,084 wordsIt is very easy to associate Edgar Allen Poe with thoughts of dreariness and darkness and with good reason as much of his writing does reflect those very downcast moods. Although, authors do like to sometimes break their stereotypes and produce things entirely different from their usual and Poe is no exception. This can be easily observed by comparing the use of his lead characters in the stories? The Black Cat? , ? Hop-Frog? and? The Purloined Letter. ? Each character is in a different situatio...
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Hip Hop Mechanical Reproduction
3,531 wordsTechno Schmechno: A Postmodern Approach To Electronica Techno Schmechno: A Postmodern Approach To Electronica In searching for a properly post-modern style of music, it may be better to look at the electronic music scene, which began with house music in the early to middle 80 s, rather than at hip-hop. It is true that the hip-hop artist generally disappears into the narrative of the music to the extent that many of their lives are a direct reflection of what they sing about: gang violence, drugs...
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374 wordsHip-Hop Hip Hop Music Appreciation Hip-Hop is one of the newest forms of music. It has expanded and is now the most popular form of music for people ages 11 - 25. In the last 2 years, hip-hop is the most lucrative form of music. It has sold billions of records and has made record companies billions of dollars. Hip-Hop was started in New York City in the late 70 s by the cities youth. Hip-Hop was more than just music, it was a culture. It involved many things such as style, of dress, break dancin...
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3,377 wordsSpirituality in Hip-Hop Many people view hip-hop from only a commercial standpoint. This would force them to believe that since mainstream rap is riddled with references to violence, sex, and money, that there is a lack of reverence or acknowledgement for God. This problem is remedied, however, if one looks deeper into the sources of hip-hop. Mainstream music is the sub-genre of rap in which the consumers most readily purchase. For rap, the ideas that sell the easiest are these sex and money-fil...
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Dance Floor West Coast
1,153 wordsThe history of Swing dates back to the 1920 s, where the black community, while dancing to contemporary Jazz music, discovered the Charleston and the Lindy Hop. On March 26, 1926, the Savoy Ballroom opened its doors in New York. The Savoy was an immediate success with its block-long dance floor and a raised double bandstand. Nightly dancing brought in most of the best dancers in the New York area. Really being moved by the presence of great dancers and the best black bands, music at the Savoy wa...
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