Depth Study: Popular Culture
Hip
Hip Hop
Hop
Must be associated with commercial
products
Must be constantly changing
and evolving
Popular Culture
Must have developed from a local to a national
to a global level
Must be widely accessible
changing and evolving
commercial products:
CDs, DVDs, Fashion, Magazines, Movies, Video
Games …
Early funk influence - dance music -social commentary gangsta rap - mainstream
Hip Hop
local to a national to a global level
* Sth Bronx, NY
* USA
* American Hip Hop is globalised + many national Hip Hop scenes
(France, UK, Japan, Australia etc)
widely accessible
Hip Hop music and fashion is widely available in
mainstream stores world-wide
Four Elements
Break
dancing
DJing
Rapping
Graffiti
art
Cultural Influences
African
African-American
Afro - Caribbean
Hispanic
Cultural Influences
African
Griots – African
travelling poets/cultural
story tellers. Influence
early African-American
music
Sample sound clips
Cultural Influences
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
African-American
Cultural Influences
Segregation – Jim Crow Laws
African-American
1860s – 1950s
Cultural Influences
Civil Right Movement 1950s – 60s
African-American
Cultural Influences
Black Panthers 1960s – early 70s
African-American
Musical Influences
Soul
Funk
Musical Influences
Soul
James Brown – I Got You (I Feel Good) (1965
Musical Influences
Soul
James Brown – Sex Machine (Get Up) (1976)
Musical Influences
Funk
Parliament – Give Up the Funk (1975)
OLD SKOOL ERA
The 1st Hip Hop DJs
DJ Kool Herc
Afrikaa Bambaataa
The 1st Hip Hop DJs
OLD SKOOL ERA
DJ Kool Herc
The 1st Hip Hop DJs
OLD SKOOL ERA
Afrika Bambaataa – Planet Rock (1982)
OLD SKOOL ERA
The 1st MCs
Sugarhill Gang
Kurtis Blow
Fatback Band
OLD SKOOL ERA
The 1st MCs
Sugarhill Gang –
Rapper’s Delight
(1979)
OLD SKOOL ERA
The 1st MCs
Kurtis Blow –
The Breaks (1980)
OLD SKOOL ERA
First Big Release
OLD SKOOL ERA
First Big Release
OLD SKOOL ERA
First Big Release
Golden Age
Top of the Charts
Run DMC Walk this Way (1986)
Golden Age
Top of the Charts
Golden Age
Top of the Charts
Golden Age
Political Hip Hop
Public Enemy –
Fight the Power (1989)
Golden Age
Political Hip Hop
BDP – Duck Down (1992)
Golden Age
Political Hip Hop
Golden Age
Political Hip Hop
KRS One –
Sound of da Police (1993)
Golden Age
Gangsta Rap
Niggaz with Attitude –
Straight Outta Compton (1988)
Golden Age
East Coast West Coast
Tupac –
Hit em up (1996)
Modern Era
Tupac’s Other side
Tupac –
Keep ya Head up (1993)
Modern Era
Post Tupac
Eminem –
My Name is (1999)
Modern Era
Today…
50 Cent –
In Da Club (2003)
Rick Rubin
Russell Simmons
Def Jam
Joseph
Simmons
Beliefs + Values
Black liberation
Equality
Politics
Public Enemy
Self-determination
Freedom
Grandmaster Flash
Power
Tupac
Ghetto
Independance
NWA
Run DMC
Gansta
50 Cent
Hustling
Violence
Masculinity
Criminality
Mysogyny
Bling
Getting Paid
Bigger than (Hip Hop)
Dead Prez –
Its Bigger than [hip-hop] (2000)