Essays on Hop Culture

PART 1 – IDENTIFICATIONS (25 pts)

Define and explain in 2-4 sentences the importance for hip-hop culture of FIVE of the following identifications: Hip-hop music has its origins in the 1970s from South Bronx. Over the years, it has grown into rap music and even further to hip hop culture. Hip hop culture all over the world has incorporated various aspects in the society like technology, fashion, racism, art, and urban life among others. Multiple identifications in hip hop play a vital role in its culture. For example, sampling is the use of a song portion in another song either as a sound recording or ...

29.07.2016

1) 1. French Hip-Hop genre is famous for several names of people, who have made a large contribution to the development of hip-hop culture in France: Dee Nasty, Phil Barney, Bernard Zekri, Jean Karaks, and Sidney. Dee Nasty is a DJ Radio Nova’s producer and a pioneer of Hip-Hop genre in France. He has produced the first Hip Hop record in France in 1980s and soon became world-known. He took part in many DMC World DJ Championships. Dee Nasty is also known for the distribution and development of graffiti, break dance, and funk music in French culture. ...

According to Emmet Price, dancing, in the early years of Hip Hop, was the “‘essence of early Hip Hop culture’” (qtd in Gorney 1). However, over the years, dancing in the Hip Hop culture gradually lost its significance as it became “cultural fad” and was replaced with a “take away product of hip hop,” which is the CD (Gorney 2). In recent years, hip hop dance has enjoyed a “huge resurgence” (Gorney 2). This resurgence of cultural expression has manifested itself in multiple “forms” (Gorney 2). However, it is this form of cultural expression is in danger of being “ ...

American hip-hop music has achieved its global popularity over decades. It gives young people a lot of acoustic and visual pleasure as a music genre, but it also shows public issues, like poverty, race, human equality, etc. Young people are often attracted to this kind of music because those lyrics reflect their own living situations and mental states. Because of its provocative nature, the influence of American hip-hop music can be a double-edged sword: On the one hand, it can encourage people to participate in social movements; On the other hand, it can be used as a propaganda that ...

(Youth Culture and Hip-hop culture)

Youth culture is the manner by which the adolescents live, and the norms, values, as well practices they share. The youth culture is different from the older generations’ culture. Like other culture, youth culture is defined by beliefs, behaviors, styles as well as interests. The youth culture emphasizes on values such as clothes, popular music, vocabulary, music, and dating. The values create the distinction between the youth culture and other cultures. In most cases, the youth culture is an improvement of the norms and values of the parents. The youths have a massive influence ...

With the growing popularity of hip hop in the youth culture, there can be noticed a growing number of films appearing in the cinematographic industry depicting the in-demand sub-culture. Being more than just a music genre, hip hop can be fairly called a way of life that thousands of young people found close to their spirit. So the ways it looks like in real life and in movies really differ and thus hip hop is usually a controversial topic for discussion. This paper is thus going to reflect on how authentic hip hop is represented in cinema in terms ...

Introduction

Hip hop culture began in the early 1970s. This occurred when a Jamaican artist, Clive Campbell also known as DJ Kool Herc moved from Kingston to the West Bronx, New York. In West Bronx, Campbell tried to incorporate his Jamaican style of Djaying into the music systems of the Americans. His style involved reciting improvised rhymes over the dub versions of his reggae records. During his initial performances in the city, he tried to adapt his style over the chanting over the percussion sections in the pop songs during that time. With the help of other Clarke Kent and Coke ...

Abstract

Sociology is one of the most interesting fields for because it focuses on the crucial aspects that affect the welfare of the society and the world at large. Sociology tends to create a link between the emergence of different cultures and the reason behind their existence. Cultural diversity is a fact that affects the entire world and this is as a result of the emergence of new norms and values in the societal setting. Cultural diversity in the United States of America is one of the current issues which is being focused on. The emergence of new cultural values in the country ...