Thanks for the positive energy to help me recover. I'm feeling better. We will now resume with the regularly scheduled program.
---Post from Monday 27th ---
Apologies for the last minute notice, but I seem to have just got hit with some sort of stomach bug. I don't know what this is, but I don't want to get anyone sick. We will not meet in person today. There will be an online class today.
---Post from Monday 27th ---
Apologies for the last minute notice, but I seem to have just got hit with some sort of stomach bug. I don't know what this is, but I don't want to get anyone sick. We will not meet in person today. There will be an online class today.
Presenters from today, please post an audio or text to the blogsite, which summarizes one of your articles. If you are a presenter in the night class, please repeat this, so you have one post for each of the articles you chose this week. Students in the day class, please only post regarding one article, while those in the night class, should have two posts. For full participation credit, all presenters should complete posts by the end of the day today.
Non-presenters, please comment on one of the presentation posts by relating the post to your experience. For full participation credit, please complete that by the end of the day tomorrow.
In the next day or so, I will post the file and instructions for the next step of the project.
This article examined how white people associated with hip hop with the demands of color-blind ideology. There was a study conducted to observe research at 20 conscious hip hop shows over the 15 month between June 2002-August 2003. At the shows, he conducted 32 interviews with white audience members. He would basically ask questions about hip hop, which lasted 5-35 minutes each.
ReplyDeleteEminem’s Construction of Authenticity
ReplyDeleteThis article reflects upon the well known rapper Eminem and how he deals with his “Authenticity.” At first the article goes through how the rapper started life of and then he became famous and started doing well within the music industry. As I was reading threw the article a thought that I had came across was, Eminem is a White man and yet here he is talking about different races within his song(s). “Eminem brings a huge cross-cultural appeal.” When making music Eminem states that he makes sure his songs have an authenticity on them so that way they it is firmly grounded as a source of original rap.
Color-Blind Ideology and the Cultural Appropriation of Hip Hop
The article starts off with how white youths today within America are into hip hop and goes into the conversation about how this ties into color-blindness. To get a more accurate accounting for however many people were at the concerts they would count how many people would go to them. There are different believes about when hip hop had started and why it had existed, I like how Keys argues about where hip-hop originally came from the African bardic Tradition.