Many European Americans listen to pop and rock music and mimic the personas of pop and rock legends by their hairstyles, piercing and apparel. ... Moreover, beginning in the seventeenth century, a burgeoning slave trade saw Africans captured and brought to America in bondage, separated from their relations and sold, leaving individuals with no point of familiarity: forced into slavery, on a new continent, without kin or social contacts (Sullivan 21). ...

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Hip-hop started out in New York, adopting former funk and soul grooves styles and beats. ... Rap brought poetry to a new generation, as it called for lyrically skillful and colorful rhymes that paint pictures in peoples' minds. ... When hip-hop first popularized in New York, Adidas and Pro-keds among other brands clung to rappers as advertisement sources. In the 1980's, tracksuits, sheepskin and leather jackets, and name brand sneakers with oversized shoelaces became the style, and the Jheri curl was the typical hairstyle for a rapper. ... (Rose 2008) Although stories of street life...

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