The entertainment industry has been influenced greatly by African American movies, film and music; from Sydney Poitier to Denzel Washington the demand for black in Hollywood has grown. ... In music, African Americans Have bought on blues, jazz and hip hop which lead to the today's modern day rap and rock and roll. Many people tend to segregate hip hop from so -called real music, but in fact hip-hop and African American music has such a big impact on our culture. Today when you turn on the TV, it's not unusual to see a white rapper or a whit rock musician. ... Slang terms such as "p...

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., & Media Education Foundation. (2014)) Over the past decade or so, music videos have sky rocketed with attention thanks to television networks like MTV or MuchMusic. This is one reason that the music industry is still strong today and is continually expanding and getting bigger. ... T., & Media Education Foundation. (2014)) This is important to think about when it comes to women trying to make it as music stars because for a women to make it nowadays her musical talent will only take her so far, often they need to put on this sexual cover-up to be able to attract an audience who often don&#...

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Also the music differs greatly here in the south than in the north. Teens in the north only listen to either rap or heavy metal, where as in the south some teens like to listen to rap and metal but they also listen to country music. In the north, country music is almost unheard of. If you listen to country music where I am from in the north you will get made fun of and laughed at. ... Teens in the north like to dance quickly to rap or techno music. ...

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Perhaps the biggest African influence is music; including jazz, blues, early forms of rock and roll, and especially rap. Elements of rap can be seen in early African songs such as James Weldon Johnson's Lift Every Voice and Sing. ...

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A prominent culture I belong to is hip-hop, which is not simply a genre of music but a world-known culture. ... I first got exposed to the culture of hip-hop when I was a kid, as my older brother would play music in the house all day. When I was in elementary and junior high, I would always listen to hip-hop on the radio and watch the music videos on television. Then I would go to school or go outside to hang out with my friends to debate who was a better rapper and why. ... This is due to most rappers of today that forgot about the positive message that is supposed to be delivered in the son...

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This is done by showing African American entertainers ability whether it be through, music videos, movies, or documentaries, BET helped many Black Entertainers. ... BET began by broadcasting music videos in 1980 as only a two-hour network and 11 years later became the first Black-controlled company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. ... Her debut album, Songs in A Minor, is one of the first major releases by Clive Davis' new J Records, and her first single, "Fallin'," hit #1 on BET's "106 & Park" countdown show a spot held down by male rappers for the past few months. ... He...

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For example, many young women choose female rap artists like Lil" Kim and Foxy Brown as there role models. ... In music, televison, the work force and even in the home, you see changes, but they are few. ...

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Similarly, if a white person plays basketball or listens to rap music, we might think of him or her as being too "black". ... Movies, music, and yes, even Looney Tunes , all put these ideas in our heads. ...

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For the purpose of this paper, we will apply Stuart Hall's Encoding and Decoding Model of Communication to analyze the popular television show The Fresh Prince of Bel Air starring Will Smith. In Hall's essay, he puts together a four stage model of communication that talks about the production, ci...

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Some of these include actor Denzel Washington, actress Halle Berry, famous trumpeter Louis Armstrong, and rapper Ja Rule. If it were not for these people television and music would not be the same (Our Celebrities.) ...

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He uses lots of references to concrete, specific examples such as slaves making their master's waste into a tasty meal (368) or creating the roots of so much popular music today in the plantation fields (368) or even introducing " bass to 20th-century American culture" (369). ... It's a bit hard to imagine someone with a larger world-view to agree that cool is necessarily a slave song that is now the basis of a popular rap song. ...

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