...culture. Probably one of the most interesting, new and, unfortunately, typical example of the domination of stereotypes in American culture is the development of female black rap music, which has become particularly intensive in 1980s and is still quite dynamically developing. At first glance black female rap music should be free from traditional stereotypes, it should be innovative and contributing to black female emancipation and increasing the role of black females in the society at large but, in actuality, the situation is absolutely different. Despite the fact that many female rappers pretend to be unique at developing the new image of a free and independent black female, it turns to be that practically all of them, or at least the most popular of them, are ideologically dependent on the male dominance in proper and figurative sense of this word. It means that as a rule black female rappers tend to create an image which can be well accepted by the wide audience and which is created on the basis of the dominating ideology in American culture, notably in American rap music that is characterized by the male dominance and the role of a black female is so to say secondary or subordinated to a male. As a result, instead of a new image of a black female that could be independent and free of male...
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...Whether rap should be considered poetry has been an ongoing debate in the literary world for years. People who believe that it should be considered poetry argue that rap has rhythm and rhyme and is filled with emotion, while people who argue against it say that rap is a bunch of meaningless mumbo jumbo, but before we jump into the question of whether rap is poetry, let us ask the question, what is poetry? A poem could be long or short, profound or silly, metaphorical or literal. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines poetry as “writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm”. Because poetry comes in many different styles and forms, I believe that rap should be considered poetry. The first reason why rap is poetry that it utilizes rhythm and rhyme. Both rhythm and rhyme are defining aspects of poetry. Rhythm in poetry is created by a metric pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables,...
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...Hip-hop culture is everywhere. The culture, which encompasses rapping, deejaying, break-dancing and graffiti-writing, has become so popular that it has entered mainstream fashion and modern language. It doesn't stop there. The culture permeates everything from TV commercials to toys to video games. Currently, there is even a hip-hop exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. You name it, and hip hop is there representing. However, hip hop's most potent form is its rap music--embraced by urban Blacks and suburban Whites alike. It is raw self-expression that sometimes features profane lyrics, misogyny and violence. The music, along with rap videos that often present a disturbing mix of rap, hip-hop dance styles, fashion and language, leave many people asking: Is hip-hop culture harming our youth" "The hip-hop culture is just like electricity," civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton told JET. "It can be used negatively or positively. The same electric current that lights up your house can also electrocute you. It is the misuse of hip-hop culture to attack our women and promote violence. We must encourage the proper use of hip-hop culture. We are all influenced by the hip-hop generation." Sharpton, who recently hosted a special summit on social responsibility in the hip-hop industry, labeled gangsta rappers "well-paid slaves." Advertisement "Don't let some record executive tell you that cursing out your mama is in style. Anytime...
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...The Everyday Life of Metaphors “To be aware of metaphors is to be humbled by the complexity of the world, to realize that deep in the undercurrents of thought there are thousands of lenses popping up between us and the world, and that we’re surrounded at all times by what Steven Pinker of Harvard once called ‘pedestrian poetry.’ ” --David Brooks When having a conversation with family, friends, or a colleague, are you aware of what you are saying? Are you aware of the devices that you use to shift the conversation in your favor or even to make your point more relatable? Contrary to popular belief, metaphors are a part of our everyday life; they are ubiquitous. We use them in everyday conversations more often than we may realize. Metaphors are powerful devices; often times we use them subconsciously, but they still manage to deliver the same validity. The aim of this paper is to bring the metaphors in our everyday life to light, by showing their explicit and implicit use in different areas of our daily life. Metaphors go beyond literature and transcend to other realms such as storytelling, spoken art, government, and advertisement. Before examining the everyday life of a metaphor, it is important to present its meaning and history to best explain how it became such an important part of our speech. Aristotle was the first to provide a scholarly treatment of metaphors and gives a detailed definition of the term ‘metaphor.’ He reports that a metaphor ”consists in giving...
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...Text From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look up Text, Texts, text, or texts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Text may refer to: Text & Talk (formerly Text), an academic journal Text (literary theory), any object that can be "read" Textbook, a book of instruction in any branch of study Religious text, a writing that a religious tradition considers to be sacred Writing, communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols Contents [hide] 1 Computers and electronics 2 Arts and entertainment 3 See also Computers and electronics[edit] Text display, an electronic alphanumeric display device Text file, a type of computer file Text messaging, the sending of short messages by mobile phone or PC/Mac Text mode, a computer display mode based on characters Text segment, another term for the code segment of a binary executable computer file Plain text, unformatted text Text (Chrome app), a Google Chrome application Arts and entertainment[edit] Text (Philippine TV series), a telenovela of GMA Network Text (song), a 2010 song by rapper Mann produced by J.R. Rotem "Text" (short story), a short story by Samuel Beckett TEXT, a Swedish band TxT (film), a 2006 Filipino horror film See also[edit] Enriched text, a formatted text format for e-mail Text, Speech and Dialogue, an annual conference on natural language processing and computational linguistics Discourse (disambiguation) Disambiguation icon This disambiguation page lists...
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...Graffiti is just another way to express yourself as being a form of a artist. So what I’m trying to say is, graffiti shouldn’t be illegal. It’s just creative writing with colors, yea it destroys but it also builds character. If they want their property to stop getting destroyed then they should make places for graffiti artist to do their work. People should want places to be more colorful. Some supports of allowing graffiti will let artist express themselves in a way they know how. Allowing graffiti will keep people from doing it illegally in places that are illegal. Allowing graffiti will be helpful because places could be set up where it’s not illegal. Graffiti is gang affiliated is what some people say but it’s really not. Graffiti...
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...Music is unique to human beings. We are the only species on earth capable of making and comprehending music. It has existed since the early stages of human life; it is believed that music was developed before language and speech. It has the power to change our moods and behavior, as well as affect the way we go about the things we are simultaneously doing. Music is constantly changing and evolving, and many times it shapes our current culture. There is argument over whether the music nowadays has a negative effect on America’s youth. Hip-hop takes the blame for many social problems in America, however many people overlook the influence it has and are unwilling to learn what it is about. Music, and more specifically hip-hop, has a positive influence on people and our culture in several different ways, including the way it affects the human brain, and the way it shapes and changes our culture and society as a whole. Music has an effect over people on a neurological level, which goes unnoticed by many. Music makes the human brain operate and can be beneficial at very early stages of brain development. Music helps immensely in learning and memorization; babies can even speed up their auditory comprehension due to musical exposure. Adults speak slowly to babies, annunciate syllables, and emphasize the pitch of their voice according to whether they are saying a demand or a question. For example the pitch of your voice goes up when asking a question and goes down or stays even throughout...
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...This article is about the cultural movement. For the music genre, see Hip hop music. For other uses, see Hip hop (disambiguation). Graffiti of "hip hop" in Eugene, Oregon Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic subculture that originated in African-American and Hispanic-American communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx.[1][2][3] DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, B-boying and graffiti writing.[4][5][6][7] [8] Since its emergence in the South Bronx, hip hop culture has spread to both urban and suburban communities throughout the world.[9] Hip hop music first emerged with disc jockeys creating rhythmic beats by looping breaks (small portions of songs emphasizing a percussive pattern) on two turntables, more commonly referred to as sampling. This was later accompanied by "rap", a rhythmic style of chanting or poetry presented in 16 bar measures or time frames, and beatboxing, a vocal technique mainly used to imitate percussive elements of the music and various technical effects of hip hop DJ's. An original form of dancing and particular styles of dress arose among fans of this new music. These elements experienced considerable refinement and development over the course of the history of the culture. 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...
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...Engl 503 S.M. Rabillard Term Paper Dec 6 2001 Exchanging the Currency of Authenticity: Live Performance and Mediatization in Hiphop Culture Baba Brinkman 0135748 Welcome to the wonderful World of entertainment Where art imitates life And people get famous Welcome to the world Of show-biz arrangements Where "lights, camera, action" Is the language. -Jurrasic 5 Performance studies in the last few years has begun to reject essentialist notions of live performance as ontologically distinct from the influence of recorded media, or mediatization. Philip Auslander deconstructs the traditional binary of live versus mediatized forms in his recent study, Liveness: Live Performance in a Mediatized Culture. Since hiphop culture and rap music originated in a post-industrial urban setting, they have always been inherently mediatized to some degree. However, if there is no unmediatized performance in hiphop culture, a huge premium is still placed on immediacy. Since the appearance of rap records in the late seventies and MTV rap music videos in the mid-eighties it has become increasingly easier for rap artists to achieve success without having to first build a local following. In response to this phenomenon, music critic Nelson George has made a political analogy: recorded media "has made rap more democratic--but is democracy good for art? Hiphop was, at one point, a true meritocracy"(George 113).i Hiphop culture struggles between its status as meritocracy ...
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...Introduction “If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.” Though simple, these lyrics from the song “I am a Woman” contain a powerful message of female empowerment. Songs like this challenge the traditional devaluation of women as incapable and weak. With the rise of feminism, many more female artists have started to include feminist ideas in their songs. Thus, the topic on how popular music has helped bring forth the idea of feminism is of great relevance to our world today. Literature Review The personal struggles and triumphs that female artists portray in their songs and lives, relates to and in turn empowers females in patriarchal societies. Nelson (1993, p. 77), a rap music journalist, commented that female rap artists in the 1980s had to fight harder than their male counterparts in the industry and yet never replicated the male artists’ success. (As cited in Keyes, 2000, p. 265) Similarly, Madonna worked hard to prove her worth as a female artist in the male dominated pop music industry. (Lugo-Lugo, 2001) The struggles of these two female artists in their respective male dominated trades are parallel to the struggles of females in patriarchal societies. These females desire gender equality and look to female artists and their songs as a source of hope. Female rap artists use rap as a medium to advocate gender equality and in turn created spaces for themselves and other ‘sistas’ as well. (Keyes, 2000, p. 274) In the song lyrics of "The...
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...Spike Jonze and Hollywood’s Tug-of-War “The other day, I was lucky enough to be at an event to bring the arts back into schools and got to see an amazing collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and a young dancer in LA, Lil Buck. Someone who knows Yo-Yo Ma had seen Lil Buck on YouTube and put them together. The dancing is Lil Buck's own creation and unlike anything I've seen. Hope you enjoy.” This is the preface given by Spike Jonze, to a video he filmed in April of 2011. In this video, an L.A. street dancer named Lil Buck performs a style of dance, which is commonly referred to as “gangster walking”, while classical musician Yo-Yo Ma accompanies him on the cello. The performance cannot be compared to anything else – the blend of street dancing and classical music is truly a unique combination. It’s a combination that we don’t see in everyday life, a distortion of reality – which is most likely why Jonze was drawn to the idea. From his early days as a music video director and all throughout his career, Spike Jonze has had a penchant for escaping the confines of reality. From one of his earliest music videos, which plays in reverse, to films like Being John Malkovich and Where the Wild Things Are, in which he literally brings the viewer in to a new reality. This distortion of reality is a mirror of Spike’s obsession with straying from convention, in narrative and filmmaking technique. While Spike and his characters may seek to escape the confines of reality, what they are really seeking...
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...Annotated Bibliography Books: 1. Awkward, Michael. Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity : (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow). Durham: Duke UP, 2007. Print. a. Soul Covers is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers—Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow—used cover songs to negotiate questions of artistic, racial, and personal authenticity 2. Bego, Mark. Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul. New York, NY: Skyhorse Pub., 2012. Print. a. Traces the life of Aretha Franklin from deserted child to teenage mother to Grammy winner to inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. 3. Bogdanov, Vladimir. All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul. San Francisco, CA: Backbeat, 2003. Print. a. This is a complete guide to the uniquely American world of the blues. The roots of the blues can be found in the turn-of-the-century Mississippi Delta, but today its reach extends into all kinds of music including rock, jazz, country, soul, and more. 4. Brown, Ruth, and Andrew Yule. Miss Rhythm: The Autobiography of Ruth Brown, Rhythm and Blues Legend. New York: D.I. Fine, 1996. Print. a. Tony Award winner Ruth Brown is a rhythm-and-blues revolutionary, a woman whose early successes earned her instant worldwide fame and launched a career that has influenced such legendary performers as Aretha Franklin, Dinah Washington, Little Richard and Stevie Wonder. This candid autobiography offers the true...
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...[pic] Name of Student: Davien A. Donald School: Glenmuir High School Registration #: 1000390605 Territory: Jamaica Year f Exam: June 2015 Teacher: Mrs. Grant Table of Content TITLE PAGE PAGE Introduction Acknowledgement Description of Business 5 Organization of Marketing Department 7 Market Research 11 Promotion Mix 21 Customer Complaint 26 Government Regulations 28 Ethical Issues 30 Biblioghraphy 31 INTRODUCTION Entrepreneurship drives any economy; for a business to be viable, it takes an individual with foresight, drive and enthusiasm for the business to be a success. It is therefore the intent of the business owner to join the food industry, which he believes has a very high growth potential. The business venture will be a Manufacturing Company, ‘Zens’ Manufacturer, which will be distributing healthy and affordable choices of products for the health conscious individual. The main aim of...
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...“The Importance of Music Publishing in Artist Management” Dr. Mary Conwell BUL 2241-102 G. Jay Lee 1/28/2009 Cover Page...............................................................................................1 Table of Contents…………………………………………………….....2 Abstract Summary...................................................................................3 Introduction……………………………………………………………..4 Integrity………………………………………………………………..5-8 Identity………………………………………………………………..….9 Self perception is equitable to self promotion………………...........10-11 Ideology …………………………………………………......……….….12 Conclusion…………………………………………………………….…13 Glossary………………………………………………………………….14 Annotated Bibliography………………………………………………...15 Appendix A…………………………………………………………..16-18 Appendix B ………………………………………………………….…..19 Appendix C…………………………………………………………..20-22 Abstract summary As youngsters, children are taught that they are all very special, and are told to reach for stars. Summarily, most people think that in order to become the next “pop star”, all anyone needs is a little talent and a lot of luck. However, in today’s business climate, in order to be considered a bankable investment, artists must possess talent, kiss lady luck square on the lips, and have the business acumen garnered towards dealing with the confines of the recording industry. The primary purpose of this document is to help artists discern the steps necessary to attain music publishing...
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...Project report on “An organization study at Kerala soaps LTD “ Submitted as a part of MBA I year Course Requirement By KANNAN PRAKASH 3511040070 Under the guidance of Mr. SHANKAR Asst. Professor – MBA Department SRM University SRM B-SCHOOL FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY SRM UNIVERSITY (RAMAPURAM II) VADAPALANI, CHENNAI BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE This is to certify that MR. KANNAN PRAKASH is a Bonafide Student of SRM B-School, SRM University, Vadapalani, Chennai. He is in the 1st year of Masters Degree Program in Business Administration (MBA). He has done this project under my guidance and supervision towards part fulfillment of I year MBA course. Project Guide HOD Mr. SHANKAR Prof. T.P NAGESH Date: 05/08/2011 Place: CALICUT DEPARTMENT SEAL DECLARATION I KANNAN PRAKASH Reg No: 3511040070 studying in I year MBA program at SRM B-School, SRM University, Vadapalani, Chennai, hereby declare that this project is an original work of mine and I have not verbatim copied / duplicated any material from sources like internet or from print media, excepting some vital company information / statistics, which are provided by the company itself. Signature of the Student Date: 05/08/2011 Place: CALICUT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT With a grateful heart, I like to thank and praise God for his faithfulness and love in my life. First I would like to thank MR.PRAKASH, Manager - Human Resources, SRA Systems Ltd., Chennai., for...
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