Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. ... Dvooak visited the United States for two years (1893-95) and he was the first to advise the American composers to look seriously at the music and cultures around them, especially the music and culture of the Negro. ... One of the greatest musical forms to come from and be influenced by Black Nationalism is hip-hop (rap) music. ... His vast repertoire of music induced hard-to-find reggae beats and his thundering speaker system, ...

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She understood that her son's music, while often condoning violence and urban destitution, was music that people could empathize with and relate to. Gangster rap, often termed gangsta rap has maintained a bad rap since its beginning. ... And the music industry, insisting that it is defending artistic freedom and arguing that music doesn't cause violence, has weathered a storm of criticism." ... Another supposed issue that plagues the genre of gangster rap is the music causes many White people to label all Black people as gang bangers and ghetto thugs. ... People keep up t...

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Perry argues four distinctions of hip-hop music that make it characteristically black American Music 1. ... It is no secret how music permeates the human psyche, namely music's significance to culture. ... Within the rap arena no subject goes untouched. ... Rap pushes the importance of mobility as a sign of freedom in African-American tradition and this resonates in hip-hop music (Stepto, 1991). ... Rap music should be considered as a necessary tool to reach this particular subculture in America. ...

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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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Rap musicians in the mid-1980s began producing aggressive music against white people for their unfair treatment of black people in the area. ... The rap music that sprouted from the area started with groups like N.W.A, an acronym for "Niggas With Attitude" lead by artists Ice Cube and Dr. ... The group along with other rappers created a new genre of rap, called "gangster rap." This type of rap differs from most of rap that is heard in modern times with the exception of one of the newest rappers from Compton named Kendrick Lamar. ... It has been claimed by the general pop...

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The most popular musical artists are of Hip Hop music in origin. Hip Hop is a genre of music strongly dominated by the black community. ... Music is not the only area Hip Hop culture is present in pop culture. ... The one black man in the beginning is a rapper named Rich Bowers heavily involved with the Hip Hop music/dance club industries and the crime associated with both industries. ... This is a very stereotypical view of black rappers as being gangsters. ...

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Furthermore, we can see the trend of white appropriation of black music throughout the next generations of black inspired music: Jazz, Rock and Roll, and eventually, Hip-hop. ... Eminem, a highly respected white rapper, grew up in poverty in a black community. ... However, his successes were not only based off his skills as a rapper, but credit his success to his race and to his record label's intended audience: the white consumer. ... White people using black music and culture takes away the authenticity and meaning in which black people created the music for in the first place. ... Th...

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In music there has always been a cultural effect. ... Hip hop and rap were birthed in the 90's by groups and people like the Wu Tang Clan, Biggie smalls, Tupac, and snoop dogg. Along with Female rappers like Queen Latifa and SaIt-N-Pepa. ... " And while something like this may sound absurd to someone it's really true because when songs like ridin dirty came out rapper were truly able to express what was really going on. ... The encompassing word for this generation of music and music listeners is raw. ...

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Black people are portrayed to listen to rap music and gospel music more often than anything else. ... We are shown to really hate music that other cultures are shown to really love. According to Media, When black people listen to rap music it has to be played to the loudest volume and have the most curse words and disrespectful terms included in the song for them to like it. ... When it comes to music; I listen to whatever I like. ... My culture is stereotyped to only relate to gospel and rap music which are both some of my least favorite genres no matter how much I like both. ...

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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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This goes for hip hop music as well. ... The reader is left wondering: Does she work in the music industry? Has she been traumatically influenced by the music industry in some way? ... On the other hand, the comments McLune makes pertaining to Jay-Z are meaningless because she fails to establish credibility to offer an opinion of this music genre. ... In Powell's article he references people from William Shakesphere to McLyte, a female rapper. ...

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I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's shop and find someone who can cut my hair. In my experience, music shop shelves are buried under piles of "Hip-Hop- or "Rap- music that supposedly represents the black subculture. White music, even if it could be defined as that, is what has the minority floor space. Besides, who ever labeled music as black or white anyway? ...

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The music industry today exemplifies this kind of separation. Rock and roll music was formerly made up of only whites, but gradually African-Americans moved into that genre of music. This is a good thing for racial equality, except for when you look at the other types of dominant music today, rap and rhythm and blues. There is almost no white singers in these entire styles of music. On MTV, there has been only two white rap singers in the history of the channel, and one of them, Vanilla Ice, is the subject of constant ridicule by black rap fans and performers. ...

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Music, one of the most expressive genres in entertainment provides a given voice for a generation. Our times, our generation, has Rap and Hip-Hop flowing creatively, mixing parallel communities with a unison voice depicting the same hard truths life teaches us. Rap and hip-hop artists become major influences upon the developing minds of a generation; their words and actions vitally affect the community. ... Music, one of the most expressive genres in entertainment provides a given voice for a generation. ... Rap and hip-hop artists become major influences upon the developing minds of a gen...

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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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Another picture was one of the music sensation Miley Cyrus, and was meme of her dancing in one of her music videos, with a part of the song being captioned under it. ... The phrase "you mad" originated from this video clip; rapper Cam'ron accused Bill O'Reilly of being mad when he began interrupting then Rocafella CEO Damon Dash. ... Another example is a picture that of Miley Cyrus, she is a well-known white female celebrity in the music industry. In the meme is a picture of her dancing in her music video "We Can't Stop." Since the video came out, it caused a huge...

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The new usage of the word was popularized by "gansta rap," music that celebrated West Coast gang violence, during the early 1990's. It was later adopted by many young black fans of rap and hip-hop, the word had been used by black comedians, like Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy and movies about urban culture. ... Fans other than black account for a large share of rap and hip-hop sales, and have long been exposed to the new usage. ...

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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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Canada is a place full of cultural wealth. Many different kinds of people, cultures, and races live in Canada and call it their home. One race that had a significant role in the construction, molding and forming of Canada is the Black people and they really are not ever shown any gratitude for what they have done. This country owes them for what they have done and it is sad that we do not learn about Black history, not even in our high school Canadian history courses do we lean about black people in Canada. They did so much for their country even when life was not fair to them. ...

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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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