Name: Ian Patton
Date: 3-11-15
Project Focus: (list texts/spaces you are analyzing and the normalization you are investigating)
Date: 3-11-15
Citation: Keyes, Cheryl Lynette. Rap Music and Street Consciousness. Urbana: U of Illinois, 2002.
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Hip-hop is a youth arts mass movement that evolved in the
Bronx, New York, during the early 1970’s. compromised of disc
jockeys (DJ’s/turntablists), emcees (MC’s), breakdancers (b-boys
and b- girls), and graffiti writers (aerosol artists).
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History of hip hop I believe would be a good thing to elaborate
on, to give a background of how it all started and why.
Hip hop further encompasses what its adherents describe as its
adherents describe as an attitude rendered in the form of
stylized, language, and gestures associated with urban street
culture.
Originally it was more associated with close knit street culture,
where as now its become a fame and money, Hollywood sort
of thing.
Most critics and scholars concur that rap music is confluence of
African American and Caribbean culture expressions, such as
seromons, blues, game songs, and toasts and toasting, all of
which are recited in a chanted rhyme or poetic fashion.
The history started as sort of a religious thing, therefore ther
was no thought of the type of negativity that is associated with
it today.
When I asked about the origins of rap, several verteran rap artists
pointed to Africa as a reference for its performance practices.
Hip-hop’s proclaimed godfather Afrika Bambaataa indicated,
“although it [rap] has been in the Bronx, it goes to Africa because
you had chanting style of rappin” (Bambaataa interview).
Having a quote from someone who is known very well in the
hip hop culture, about the hip hop culture is incredibilly helpful
for credibility. He was the Godfather, or known as it of rap.
Overall Response/Reflection: this is mainly about the history of hip hop and how at the beginning of it all it wasn’t all about drugs
and women and money and things of that sort.
Date: 3-11-15
Citation: Conrad, Kate, Travis L. Dixon, and Yuanyuan Zhang. "Controversial Rap Themes, Gender
Portrayals and Skin Tone Distortion: A Content Analysis of Rap Music Videos." Journal of
Broadcasting & Electronic Media 53.1 (2009): 134-56. Web. 12 Mar. 2015.
Notes/Quotes
Since its introduction in 1981, rap music has grown greatly in
popularity. How- ever, rap music has also been a source of
controversy (Dixon & Brooks, 2002; Dixon & Linz, 1997; Hansen &
Hansen, 2000; Rose, 1994). Specifically, it has been accused of
promoting controversial messages dealing with violence, sex and
materialism ( Johnson, Jackson & Gatto, 1995; Smith, 2005).
Response to Notes/Quotes
Only just recently has it become a topic of controversy, and by
recently, I mean the last 10-15 years approximately, it wasn’t
always like that. Its grown a lot.
Previous research has suggested that this content promotes
negative behaviors; however, there are mixed findings in prior
research suggesting that rap music contains both controversial
and community promoting themes (Johnson et al., 1995;
Zillmann et al., 1995).
I agree not all hip hop and rap music is negative, but a lot of it
is positive towards the community as well.
Artists and characters in the videos are another aspect of rap
music that demand attention. Unlike other music genres, rap
music is dominated by Black artists and performers (Kubrin,
2005). This aspect is important because of the colorism that
often occurs in media.
Colorism is a clear underlying problem associated indirectly
with rap music, I think this has a lot to do with the negativity it
gets in the media.
recent debates on rap music have accused it of being overly
sexist and degrading towards women. As a genre, rap music is
often linked to Black male identity which may lead to an increase
I do also agree with this though, it most definitely is overly
sexist and degrading to women. And it is really unnecessary.
in themes of sexism and misogyny for women (hooks, 1992).
Overall Response/Reflection: id like to focus a lot on how hip hop and rap music doesn’t always have to be looked at as if it is a bad
thing, but a lot of the time a good thing.
Date: 3-12-15
Citation: Morgan, Marcyliena, Dionne Bennet, Dalton Higgins, Sujatha Fernandez, Mark Gunn, and
Alexs Pate. Current Controversies: Rap and Hip-Hop (n.d.): n. pag. Gale.cengage.com. Web. 12
Mar. 2015.
Notes/Quotes
Hip-hop is the most popular music style in the world, and it has
become a major player in the democracy movement in the
Middle East and Africa. Political rap songs have ignited powerful
protest movements and have become the soundtrack for
revolution in Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere. Rap’s ability to give
voice to the oppressed and to quickly spread viewpoints around
the world make it a powerful force for sociopolitical change.
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Rap music can do a lot more than what we simply hear on the
radio, it’s a very powerful platform for voice of opinion.
The origins of American rap lie in efforts to raise politi- cal and
social awareness, so it is especially disappointing that today’s rap
is so heavily commercialized and focused on glitz, guns, and girls
rather than on the serious social and economic justice issues that
I do also agree with this statement as well, its priorities have
changed overtime, and its about time they go back to there
roots, and talk about actual issues.
affect communities of color. The hip-hop generation must set
aside its apathy and put the political voice back in American rap.
With its origins firmly in the African American commu- nity, hiphop has evolved to become a global cultural community whose
members are united by a common language and knowledge
base. Hip-hoppers come from diverse backgrounds but share a
set of understandings about aesthetic, social, intellectual, and
political identi- ties, and about beliefs, behaviors, and values. Hiphop ideology influences young people throughout the world.
Hip hop has personally influenced me in many ways, part of
the reason im writing about it, but I wish more people would
realize the good it does.
The foundation of rap music is rhythm and rhyme, and
rap/poetry is a significant mode of African American lin- guistic
expression. Most raps are written first as poems, and to
understand the true significance of rap, one must acknowledge
the poetry inherent in the form. Rap is the most vibrant element
in African American literature to- day.
There is skill put into raps, actual talent, in my opinion it
requires the most talent if you do it right. The problem is now a
days many artists don’t much thought in their music.
Overall Response/Reflection: this is a lot about the positives that come along with rap, and how the current state of rap music can
be changed in order to inspire the youth, not encourage them to do bad things.
Date: 3-12-15
Citation: Zella, Carmen. "Soundcrash: The Art Movement of Hip Hop." The Huffington Post.
TheHuffingtonPost.com, 11 Aug. 2010. Web. 13 Mar. 2015.
Notes/Quotes
Hip hop is an art movement. Despite its mainstream appeal, the
effects and associations visually and musically echo accredited
fine art movements throughout history, and it's been forcefully
crashing through the layers of the art establishment over the last
decade.
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Hip hop is a form of art, I am an artist so I can completely see
the resemblance .
The relationship between graffiti and hip hop culture arises from
the appearance of new and increasingly elaborate and pervasive
forms of the practice in areas where other elements of hip hop
were evolving as art forms, with a heavy overlap between those
who wrote graffiti and those who practiced other elements of
the culture.
Graffiti and rap go hand and hand because they both got
popular around the same time I history and around the same
area in New York.
The relationship between the aural and visual representations of
hip hop has been very well documented over the years, since
Taki 183 graced the New York City streets and got Times
coverage in 1971. In the 1990s and 2000 decade, live painting
became a hallmark of street art and graffiti artists.
There are many more examples of the relationship between
the two, than this one. But it is a pretty good example itself.
Overall Response/Reflection: this is mainly about the relationship between graffiti and rap music, really art and rap music and it
being and art form itself. I am an artist and this relationship really intrigues me a lot.
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