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Rap Music: Social Meaning

affair of choppy strophes of braggadocio chanted over an endlessly repeating bass line and drum track. But there is more to the m...

American Music History and the Development of Rap Music

In ten pages this paper examines the important American musical developments of hip hop and rap music culture. Eight sources are ...

Rap Music's Negative Impact on Relationships

In eight pages this paper examines rap music trends and argues that it is responsible for having negative effects on relationships...

Rap Music's Culture and History

was said about Rock and Roll when it first became popular. However a single factor, whatever the opinion one holds regarding RAP i...

Rap Music and a Cynical Public

In four pages this essay considers a small local college student survey that reflects strong opinions regarding rap music....

Evolution of Rap Music in France

both French and American rappers see themselves as expressing the frustration and anger of oppressed minorities towards establishe...

East and West Coast Rap Wars and the Deaths of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.

for example (Kinnon, 1997). However, the genre changed around 1988 with the emergence of a sub-genre termed gangsta rap (1997). A ...

Censoring Rap Music Because Freedom of Speech Has Gone Too Far

audiences will play only heavily censored versions of rap songs. The U.S. government has also actively sought to censor rap music...

Validity or Bigotry in Rap Music Criticisms

are false. After all, if they had any truth to them, then why is the music unable to solicit a more optimistic response from our ...

RAP MUSIC AND PERPETUATION OF MISOGYNY

couple of studies dealing with gansta rap and its impact on adolescents most likely to be affected by it. Well then move to the ot...

2nd Graders and the Impact of Silence and Rap Music

In six pages this research paper provides a review of the pertinent literature regarding the process of learning and the effects o...

Creative Cultural Expression and Rap Music

would seem, other rappers (performers of RAP music) claim that it has its roots in the work of the German band Kraftwerk (Cashmore...

Rap Music

In 6 pages this paper philosophically analyzes rap and alternative music's impact upon cultures in a consideration of genre and su...

Structure in Music

the element of chance, such as the chance imperfections that are seen in a finely produced piece of paper, such as one having a wa...

Rap and the Rap Culture

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

Eminem's Music

thing, Eminem has an "intuitive sense of how to flow smoothly from the measured cadence of ordinary speech to the discursive inten...

Concepts of Insider and Outsider Cultures

In sixteen pages this paper discusses minorities and social mainstream individuals in a consideration of what is meant by 'insider...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Electronic v. Conventional Music Distribution

In five pages distributing music electronically through Internet download sites rather than by conventional means is critically an...

Calypso

in the call and answer format, with matching phrases with the use of many V - I cadences and then open cadences to allow the respo...

African American and the Sociological Aspects of Rock and Roll

the academics, he is attempting to communicate the truths to both sides of the issue. In addition, when we understand that, acc...

Infamous Reputations of Rap Music Artists

the "breakbeats" (Beau PG) and other natural vocal rhythms. It was not until within the past several years that they took on a ne...

Black Noise by Tricia Rose

or in any number of ways that reflect the current concerns of black male youth. Female rappers, on the other hand, tell stories fr...

The Case of Rap Music and Adorno's Mass Culture Theories

the offering of music or media, but more often this is merely window dressing and is really pseudo individualisation, meaning the ...

Constructive or Destructive Effects of Rap Music

In three pages this paper analyzes the constructiveness or destructiveness of rap music and its accompanying videos. Three source...

German Music Industry Investment

common to find both mainstream and underground rap groups combining melodious, German lyrics. Rap and hip-hop are not only popula...

Rap, Poetry, and Nikki Giovanni's 'Nikki Rosa'

In five pages this paper discusses rap music as a form of poetic expression as represented in Nikki Giovanni's 'Nikki Rosa.' Five...

MUSIC AND ITS IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE

that provides ethnic minorities (and even poor whites) an opportunity to speak their minds and their feelings (Reeves, 2007). Over...

Popular Culture and Rap Music

In ten pages this paper discusses the sociocultural impact of rap music in a consideration of the genre's history and development....

Urban Environment and Segregation

urban setting is critical to American life. The recent clashes between blacks and whites have gone unnoticed as time erases memori...