Hip Hop Research Papers Samples For Students

Introduction

Many rappers commend Eminem for his clear pronunciation, complex rhyming style, and the very good word playing skill. In the music industry, he was labeled as the most successful white rapper due to his awards and music sales. Eminem has also been subjected to many debates weather he has a positive or negative influence for the issues of gender, race and class. Many politicians and other celebrities also despised him because of his violent words, corruption of youth, misogyny, homophobia and other allegations. However, there are also critics that value his influence and contributions to the world of Hip Hop. ...

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There are various ways of expressing oneself. One of the ways includes dancing, which is considered a nonverbal form of communication in our daily lives. Dancing involves movement of various body parts, in most cases towards music. It is used as a method of expressing ideas or narrating a story in both social and spiritual setups. Moreover, many people use dance as a way of educating others about their cultural practises. Many people across the world consider dance as a principal form of entertainment. Dance has overtime been classed depending on the country of origin or ethnicity. As such, citizens or different countries are ...

The hip hop culture is believed to have come into existence in the 1970s. The culture is expressly marked by four cardinal elements or art forms that serve to distinguish it from other cultures in the world. Hysell in the American Reference books manual points out that the four arts of the hip hop culture are rapping, break dancing, Disk Jockeying and graffiti (488). Notably, these four elements can be easily be recognized by anybody. It can also be noted from the four arts that music is by all means the most blatant aspect of the hip hop 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 “ ...

Hip-hop is a music genre popular among the youth and teenagers around the world. The genre has experienced significant changes from its inception to what it is currently. Besides, rock music, Hip-hop advocates lifestyles that are louder and daring than the modest or ordinary lifestyles. Additionally,Dalton (77) shows that the genre also has influenced how its fans relate and identify with each other, advocates the use of slang language. the Hip-Hop music is characterized by turntablism also known as Disk Jockeying, rapping, graffiti, dances such as the famous breakdance.
The genre was started in the 1970’s in ...

Culture has Influenced the World

How African American Culture has Influence the World
Introduction
It started as a cultural shock wave during the 1970s after its emergence in the African-American communities in the Bronx, a poverty stricken area in New York during that time. While hip hop culture is now an international phenomenon, it was once a small subculture of the African Americans that manifested a clearer picture of the life conditions, feelings and aspirations of the Black Americans. Most people attributed hip hop to rapping, a genre of music that was once unique to the black American youths, however, rap is only a part of the hip ...

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Hip-hop music is a genre of music that comprises of schematic rhythmic music and generally involves rapping, and is characterized by four fundamental stylistic elements; breakdancing, DJing, MCing, and graffiti. Besides these four primary elements, other elements such as sampling and beatboxing are also used in hip-hop music. Hip-Hop music evolved as a component of the hip-hop culture during the 1970s. The history of the evolution and reinvention of hip-hop music is interesting.
Hip-hop music traces its roots to African-American music, and finally to African music. The griots belonging to West Africa are a faction people that specialize as storytellers, musicians, ...

Hip-hop is a youth subculture, consisting of several interconnected components: fashion, graffiti, art, DJs, rap, and breakdance. Other elements include beatboxing, hip hop fashion and slang. Hip-hop originally appeared in the South Bronx in the 1970s (12 November 1974, to be exact), and has become a part of youth culture in many countries around the world. Since the late 1990s the underground street culture with sharp social orientation, gradually became a part of the music industry, and by the middle of the first decade of this century, a subculture of hip-hop has become «fashionable» and «mainstream». However, despite this, there are plenty of ...

In her work entitled “Race/Gender/Media Considering Diversity across Audiences, Content, and Producers” Rebecca Lind guides a discussion regarding how influential media communications can be, fostering both positive images and powerfully damaging ones as well. While it is true that music videos may represent a harmless form of entertainment for people, an analysis examining the ways in which gender and sexuality issues impact upon perceptions is forthcoming in this paper. How are gender and sexuality representations depicted in various types of television programming, particularly in music videos? The research herein places the exploration to range from expressing how body images are covered ...

For many years, critics of gangsta hip hop have argued that this genre of music has created a negative cultural movement. Among the areas where hip-hop has influenced negative culture is on sexuality. Sexuality especially among the African American youth has been negatively influenced by hip-hop music. It is unfortunate that African American, who are dominant in this genre, are the worst affected by this culture. It is important to note that most African American people in America are living under poor economic conditions. In addition, most of them face numerous challenges in their daily life. Some of the worst ...

Producer, rapper, musician, designer – all these are different shades of one person, whose name is Kanye West. We believe that the contribution of Mr. West to the African American Renaissance culture cannot be overestimated as he completely changed the approach to making the hip-hop music and made the audience of people, who listen to hip-hop, far wider thanks to the diversity of the sounding in his songs. Also, he looked at the new role of African Americans in society and their image, showing that African American rappers are not gangsters from the hood with the Uzi in their bosom ...

The Psychological Effects of Rap Music: The Negative Outweighing the Positive

Violence among modern day youth, males in particular, is often attributed to the influence of hip hop or rap music. Studies have shown that rap music, lyrics and videos promote violence, sex, and materialism. However, there is also some research that shows that rap music, especially gangsta rap, drive a positive reaction such as facing oppression, community unity and attaining respect, an idea found to be promoted as much as violence . Hence, it can be said that, the nature and content of rap music has changed in step with the evolution of the African American society. As such, there is a ...

Ever since the emergence of human civilization, music has been an excellent form of entertainment for people worldwide. But aside from serving as a medium for people’s leisure, music has also served as the platform for various campaigns and advocacies by many people who desire for a significant change in the society. One of such people is the famous 90s rapper, Tupac Shakur. Tupac Shakur is amongst the thousands, maybe even millions, of bright minds who used their talents in music and exploited the music arena to send a clear message to a vast audience in hope for a change—in his case, a ...

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 ...

THROUGHOUT THE DECADES

Relationship of Music Throughout the Decades
Throughout the decades, music has seen a lot of changes. One thing that stayed the same is Rock. It was popular from the 60s all throughout the 2010s (Cox & Warner, 2004). It was the only genre to survive all five decades, and has constantly been reinvented. Many different artists saw their rise and fall throughout the decades; many have also made their comebacks in the 2000s. There are a couple of key artists that have made their name prominent in music history, changing the way people heard music (Cullen, 2001). The important eras were ...

America is a diverse country with different colored people scatter all over different states. It has a long history of colonialism and cultural evolution. When thinking of terms like “colored” or “race”, our first mind may often come with African Americans. Perhaps the civil war or the civil right movement has marked a huge monument in the American history, it has ended the injustice and cruel treatment of people living in the same country who supposed to be united. The slavery and the segregation were abolished; the hanging trees and violence were all over. However, racism still exists through stereotype causing by ...

In our paper, we will try to understand and find a correspondence between such concepts as rap and classic poetry. In our article, we hold a point of view, according to which rap is still modern poetry. In any poetry, we find the good and bad, but got used to calling all this stuff the poetry. So there is the same division into good and bad rap. The main “Chief of Justice”, that is, the factor separating rap and poetry into good and bad is time. Until our times, there have been a lot of poems, true masterpieces of ...

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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 ...

Don Cortez Cornelius, popularly known as Don Cornelius, was a television show creator, host, disk jockey and producer. He was widely known for creating the dance and music franchise called Soul Train. Soul Train, a long-running syndicated entertainment program was critical in increasing Black American music and culture to the world and providing exposure to several upcoming artistes at the time. Don Cornelius was the host of Soul Train from 1971 till 1993. He was married twice and raised two sons. The paper will explore the life of Don Cornelius, the growth and impact of the Soul Train show ...

About the Book

Ishmael Beah writes his life experience as an unwilling child soldier in Sierra Leone’s civil war in the account called A Long Way Gone. At the age of 12 years the village Beah called home is attacked but he escapes the violence because he is with a group of his friends elsewhere performing rap music. In the village where they visited for their rap fun they heard about the attack on their village “According to the teachers, the rebels had attacked the mining areas in the afternoon. The sudden outburst of gunfire had caused people to run for their ...

Angola’s Musical Background

The history in the development of different music genre in Algeria can be categorized into two periods namely; the colonial period and the post-colonial period. During the colonial period, the music in the country flourished within its borders with little success in gaining international acclaim especially when compared to music from its neighboring countries such as South Africa. The local language Kimbundu formed the focus of the musical tunes although other artists sang songs in the colonizer’s language-Portuguese (Bram 28).
However, favor soon fell on the country with development of local tastes in music grew and bands ...

The Banning of Auto tunes

I remember at the age of at eight years old, instantly falling in love listening to Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” song for the first time. This song is about a girl who claimed that Jackson was the father of her child and who also used to stalk him. The beat to the song was epic and had a great tune to it that will make you jump out of the seat, and the combinations with his vocal skills made the song amazing. I loved every second of the song and at that moment is when I became a big Michael Jackson ...

How today’s American Rap Music Negatively Influences

Teenagers by Promoting Misogyny
Discrimination against Women
Today’s North American Rap Music expresses many things that happen in our society. More often, rap music includes tough lyrics that portray social realities that promote awareness towards its audiences. However, some of the famous rap compositions not only inspire its listeners, but it also promotes misogyny in terms of expressing hatred towards women due to its explicit lyrics. Specifically, misogynic messages were being transformed into a composition and unfortunately, being patronized by many teenagers nowadays. Women are being exploited through rap music, which teenagers adapt eventually. Unfortunately this kind ...

Introduction

Rhythm and Blues—RnB—began as a strictly black music in the 1940’s that included a blend of genres such as rock, rap, Motown, doo-wop, club blues, and funk (Edward 2). The etymology of the genre was invented by Jerry Wexler a Billboard editor who sought to change the name of the genre from Black music to R & B in the late 1940’s. The music began from humble beginnings in Harlem, New York to become an instant success in other international stages, such as Britain. The first R&B artist to bring commercial success to the genre was Louis ...

Music has over the years been a part of politics. Many people use music to express their emotions. Therefore, music since the colonial era was used by many groups of people to champion for their rights and freedoms. Although music has always been a tool for democratic movements, it is not clear how the general public relates the music on the political level. Music depending on the themes explored often expresses the feelings of the songwriters. Songs have been used over years to display patriotism amongst countrymen. This is displayed in the campaign songs during political rallies and the ...

Rock and roll is one of the most important genres in the history of modern music. The signature guitar styles, drum rhythms, and powerful electric sound allowed this genre to singlehandedly change the way that music was created, presented, and performed. Rock and roll techniques and styles are present in almost every single genre on the radio today, and the traditional rhythms helped to form the basis for other styles of music. Bo Diddley was a rock and blues legend who was so intriguing that he spent over 60 years on the road playing his songs. Born in Mississippi, ...

Music has a key role in speech and communication since it may be used as a way to pass information to a group of people that may not be understood by some others. Rap is one of the most used genres in giving information to a set of people mostly the teenagers. The young generation is a group that is mostly attracted to rap music; hence, the artists use it to pass information to the teens that the older people may not fully understand. The songs influence the way the teens communicate because they bring new vocabularies and understanding.
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Motown was founded in 1959 by Berry Gordy in Detroit, Michigan. The music that Gordy created and produced changed the sound of the American music. Motown introduced Americans to a new sound of popular music created by black singers and musicians. Gordy overcame many stereotypes and polished his performers to appeal to mainstream America, black and white. With spreading popularity of television it was imperative that music stars be visual appealing as well as have a good sound. The Motown sound and philosophy created in the 1960’s still has an enormous influence on the modern music industry.

Barry Gordy

Gordy was born ...

Introduction

Music therapy is an evidence-based clinical use of musical interventions to achieve individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a certified practitioner. Music therapy may sound not like a very much practiced medical procedure but that is not true. In fact, music therapy dates back as early as ancient civilizations like Egyptian, Indus valley and old Chinese civilization. Music combined with various dance forms was used at that time to treat various illnesses. Even today music therapy is used to address physical, cognitive, emotional and social needs of an individual. After assessing the problems of a patient, a certified music therapist provides treatment which ...

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The research paper describes the genre of K-Pop with its main musical and visual characteristics, the main facts from its history from the moment of its foundation in 1990s and to its commercial popularity by the middle of 2000s. The Top K-Pop performers and their creation described and analyzed here as the examples of the provided reasons why the genre becomes more popular nowadays outside the Korean borders. The author concludes that K-Pop is the main competitor for the American Pop stage in gaining its popularity on the World stage, and it has enough potential to become the main ...

1. Introduction
This research paper provides a comparative analysis of Rhythm and Blues versus Rockand Roll music.In the 1940s,the rhythm and blues music was recorded by the African-American musicians and it was sold to the African-Americanpeople. Rock and roll music and (RNB) Rhythm and Blues are very popular in the world.The comparative analysis aims at increasing the understanding of (RNB) Rhythm andBlues music and rock and roll music. TheRock and Roll music refers to the genre of music that originated from USA in the early 1940s and developed into the rock music in subsequent years.In the early 1940s ...

America is a land of opportunities that is surrounded with various factors that have major opportunities which are globally recognized. As the superpower, the country enjoys the diversity in cultural practices that differ primarily from the hip hop, rap, poetry and other aspects of cultural diversity, which the country enjoys. Specifically, we can discuss on the hip hop as a genre of music which has affected a large number of people and has its base in the United States. Hip hop cultural movement is regarded to have introduced a couple of newer things, altered doctrines and brought understanding of self expression. The overall ...

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Popular culture is defined as the wide-ranging perspectives, attitudes, ideas, images and several other phenomena within the mainstream or rather scope of a given culture particularly the western culture (Storey 4). Subsequent to the industrial revolution, people had a lot of free time and this prompted the emergence of entertainment customs that include the mass media, additionally, this impelled advertisements ensuing the high supply and demand of goods, this in essence is perceived to have fuelled the emergence of pop culture (Fedorak 50). In history, pop culture and particularly pop music has been influential in a number of ways, additionally, pop culture ...

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In an era where global competition is on the rise and must be confronted in every sphere in order to survive and progress, creative industries can be a potential source of employment and provide an intermediary platform through which the non-employed can contribute to the economy. The United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Germany are some of the developed countries that have advanced creative industries with diverse characteristics and manifestation. Statistical data shows that global creative economy generates the value of us$ 22 billion dollars annually, and the figures keep rising. The annual growth rate of this industry ...

Modern music is a product of evolutionary inventions in the music industry. Music has undergone a lot of transitions aimed at refining and making it better than it was before. This pepper gives an in-depth analysis of Langston Hughes and Paul influences they contributed in the musical industry.

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World over, music is one of the fastest growing industries apart from acting as a chief source of entertainment, music has been used to inform, educate and warn humanity. In fact as literary work, music is used as mirror of the society; this explains why it becomes popular with all the people o0f all ...

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In any given community, certain individuals possess outstanding traits. Such traits are portrayed through their ways of doing things as well as their careers. Depending on their location, culture as well as the technological development such people are given more attention in the community. The attention that they are awarded by the community prompts them to develop certain traits to enable them to uphold their high status in the community. In some instances, they are given special responsibilities that are geared towards the promotion of certain aspects of the culture e.g. their virtues. Additionally, due to their ability to ...