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Showing 1 to 20 of 179 for “"Hip-hop"”.
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Virginia Hip Hop and Place
… importance in the maintenance of black identity, hip hop has become a global phenomena popular among all races. In this age of mass cultural exchange, hip hop culture itself endures glocalization, that is it serves the global market, but becomes customized to suit the local culture. Where hip hop …
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Re/presentation Of Hip-Hop: An Exploration Of White Hip-Hop Fans, Consumers And Practitioners
<p>Whites make up the majority of hip-hop consumers and participants. However, scholars have created a clear link between hip-hop, the African American community, and African Diaspora. Through ethnographic fieldwork and autoethnography, I explore the intersection of race and hip-hop. With the data …
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Hip-hop is my passport! Using hip-hop and digital literacies to understand global citizenship education
Hip-hop has exploded around the world among youth. It is not simply an American source of entertainment; it is a global cultural movement that provides a voice for youth worldwide who have not been able to express their "cultural world" through mainstream media. The emerging field of critical …
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It's bigger that hip hop: popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation
A number of authors and supporters of hip hop culture have suggested that rap music has the potential to serve as a vehicle for the next stage of the Civil Rights Movement. However, the extent to which rap music has addressed political issues important to post-Civil Rights Black Americans, or the …
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Hip-Hop, Medellín and Social Change
<p>This study explores the ways in which the Hip-hop movement is producing social change in Medellín, Colombia. Looking specifically at a Hip-hop school called <em>Cuatro Elementos Skuela</em>, which exists autonomously and with very little state support in the Medellín neighborhood of Aranjuez, I …
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CONFESSIONS OF A HIP-HOP HIPPIE
… Statement of Purpose does not give a history of hip-hop or hip-hop poetry but rather how this particular poet fits into the current phase of hip-hop and performance poetry. In it, I discuss and explain the new pro-working class hip-hop performance poetic. This includes extensive discussion of how …
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Spiritualizing Hip Hop with I.C.E: The Poetic Spiritual Narratives of Four Black Educational Leaders from Hip Hop Communities
… explored how four Black educational leaders from Hip Hop communities used their spiritual narratives to inform their individual and community empowerment practices in their workplaces, communities and personal lives. Their acts of spiritualized empowerment were driven by esteem, resilience, …
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El documental de Hip Hop en España
La cultura Hip Hop es un elemento más del imaginario y el sonido musical actual. A pesar de esta presencia continua la comprensión del fenómeno social y artístico escapa de la mayoría del público. En este trabajo de investigación se da un paso más hacía la comprensión del movimiento cultural del …
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Ta Ligado : rodas e hip hop no Rio
Given that hip-hop has its origin in communal sharing and resistance, how do spaces of urban art empower young people and build their identities to reclaim space? Ta Ligado: Rodas e Hip Hop no Rio is a short documentary-styled web series focusing on hip hop and urban art spaces for young people in …
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Egyptian Hip Hop and the January 25th Revolution
… also through art and music. In the past decade, hip hop music in particular has become one of the most visible outlets through which Egyptian youth are negotiating modern identities and engaging with local sociopolitical issues in their communities. Along with Egypt’s emerging revolution came a …
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Mass media framing of hip-hop artists and culture
… to society as a whole. Media coverage of hip-hop culture and the artists associated with it on a national level has been decidedly negative over the past twelve years. From the first rap/hip-hop Grammy win of Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince through the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious …
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Making beats: the art of sample-based hip hop
… York's African-American and Latino communities, hip-hop music (also known as "rap") has become the most popular musical genre in the United States. Structurally, hip-hop blends two relatively discrete endeavors: rhythmic poetry ("rapping"), and musical accompaniments in which brief segments of …
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Schoolin' women: hip hop pedagogies of black women rappers
… Black women rappers create a space in hip hop discourse from which their stories enrich and complicate the public conversation about the representation of black women’s identities. This study of black women rappers’ representations, which builds on and extends the scholarship of …
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Explicit Content: Hip Hop, Feminism, and the Black Woman
… thought to analyze the messages in contemporary hip hop music. Grounded theory was chosen to create an unbiased setting that allowed the themes to emerge rather than looking for specific occurrences. The beginning sections focus on the history of hip hop music, Black women in media and hip hop …
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Knowledge -the Fifth Element of Hip Hop Music: Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth Engagement of Hip Hop as Critically Rac(ed) Education Discourse
This dissertation investigates the interrelationships among Mexican and Puerto Rican youth in Chicago, schooling, and hip hop music as critical pedagogy. Using Critical Race and Latino Critical Race theories, the author conducted a multi-methodological qualitative study with twenty Mexican and …
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Hip-Hop and Cultural Interactions: South Korean and Western Interpretations
… eye may not notice the difference. Korean hip-hop culture, and rap music specifically, is not a simple copy and paste of American hip-hop into South Korea. It has been glocalized to fit cultural norms, expectations, and history, while still maintaining important aspects of American hip-hop. …
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Low back pain in ballet, modern, and hip-hop dancers
… investigate low back pain in ballet, modern, and hip-hop dancers, and provide practical recommendations based on the findings. The aims of this thesis were to: (a) investigate the dancers’ perspectives on low back pain and what aspects of their lives and dancing it affects, including a …
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Crossing the lexicon: Anglicisms in the German hip hop community
… in a German language context—in the German hip hop community, where the use of novel anglicisms is especially frequent. This investigation takes a methodologically diverse approach, including complementary corpus, sociolinguistic, and ethnographic analyses. In this dissertation, I focus …
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Capoeira and Hip Hop in North East Brazil: Resistance to Inequality
… thesis I argue that engagement in Capoeira and Hip Hop by Afro-Indigenous youth and community members in NorthEast Brazil ruptures their historically unequal status and enacts collective social change. My thesis is grounded on two programs I co-founded, “Capoeira for Street Kids” (Canada and …
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