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Showing 1 to 20 of 215 for “"rap"”.
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Rock, Rhythm, and Rap
… to teaching rhythm reading skills through rap music is also suggested using Rockin ' Rhythm Raps by Cheryl Lavender (1998). Rare is the student that has not been saturated with popular culture during most of his or her lifetime. The case is made that teaching what is relevant to students, …
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The minstrelising discourse of 21st century rap music
… has developed among some critics of 21st century rap andhip hop music. This discourse evokes the imagery and terminology of the 19th centuryentertainment form of blackface minstrelsy with varying motives and effects. Moreover,it is communicated via various media; from music videos to films, from …
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Numerical Analysis of RAP Elements under Dynamic Loading
… was initiated and Rammed Aggregate Piers� (RAP) were shown to be a feasible method to mitigate the risk from liquefaction during future events. To better design and more fully assess the efficacy of reinforcement techniques against liquefaction, pre- and post-treatment in-situ test data are …
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Baixada é Cruel: o território a partir do rap
… examinadas letras de Marcão Baixada, um dos rappers mais representativos da região, nas quais emergem elementos centrais do que chamaremos aqui de “mentalidade hip hop”, marcada pela valorização das conexões entre os elementos, a rua, a importância da memória e o amor pelo território.
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Allusions of grandeur : figurative language use in rap lyrics
… examines allusions among a corpus of rap lyrics to find their uses and functions. The functions of the allusions, as defined by Leppihalme, 1997, of interest are the puzzle (to identify someone with similar social knowledge), humor, to indicate cultural breadth, and characterization …
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Rap music, philosophy, and the academy : redefining discourses in Medellin
Rap music as it exists in Medellin, Colombia is a complex and complete expression of life in the city and, consequently, has the scholarly potential to be incorporated into the university curriculum. As a musician from Medellin myself, I evaluate this music with consideration of the biases of the …
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Rap and critical consciousness: Cultural relevancy for social-emotional functioning
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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"What's your fantasy?" the sexual objectification of women in rap videos
… look at the sexual objectification of women in rap videos. This study will examine two questions: (1) Are men and women equally represented as artists who perform rap videos? (2) Are men and women equally likely to be sexually objectified in rap videos? BET's Rap City Top 10 Countdown was …
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Rap music as protest: A rhetorical analysis of Public Enemy's lyrics
Rap music has been one of the most popular and controversial forms of entertainment in the 1990s. Rap music serves as a form of social protest used by Blacks who feel oppressed. This study defines rap music as protest rhetoric, provides a history of rap music as an extension of Black African and …
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Develop a Laboratory Mixing Procedure For Hot Mix Asphalt Containing RAP Materials
AbstractThe use of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) has become more prevalent with the rising costs of virgin materials and the recent push to develop more environmentally friendly and sustainable roadways. The use of RAP decreases the costs of constructing new pavements by limiting the amount of …
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RAP IN EXILE: SYRIAN DIASPORA, HYBRIDITY AND DIGITAL CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN GERMANY
This dissertation examines Syrian rap as a locus of diasporic cultural production among displaced musicians, principally those residing in Germany, to expound how these artists construct and negotiate identity, belonging and political subjectivity through sonic and digital practices. Situated …
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"Fandom and Co-Production in King of the Dot's Battle Rap Scene."
… performances of fans of the professional battle rap league King of the Dot (KOTD), the biggest battle rap league in Canada and one of the highest viewed platforms for battle rap in the world. By collectively tracing and articulating battle rap’s aesthetics, practices, formats, and community …
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Intertextualität in deutschen Rap-Texten und ihr didaktischer Nutzen für den Deutschunterricht
… der Arbeit liegt auf Texten des Genres Deutschrap. Untersucht werden diese Primärquellen in Hinblick auf Formen und Funktionen von Intertextualität und wie diese für die Vermittlung von Unterrichtsinhalten im Deutschunterricht eingesetzt werden können. Zu diesem Zweck ist die Arbeit in einen …
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Roma rap and the Black Train: minority voices in Hungarian hip hop
As hip-hop has become a world-wide phenomenon international hip-hop artists have applied the core of the genre itself by cutting and mixing African American hip-hop and adapting it to their own sound and experiences. In this paper I examine how metaphor and constraints on language choice interact …
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Uma jornada na lua: depressão e suicídio no rap através de Kid Cudi
… pelo nome artístico Kid Cudi. Kid Cudi é um rapper que se tornou a grande referência no rap quando o assunto é saúde mental. Desde a sua aparição na cena, Cudi fala sobre suicídio, depressão, ansiedade e vício em drogas, temas que eram iam contra a virilidade constante presente no meio do …
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Characterization of low-temperature properties of plant-produced rap mixtures in the Northeast
… investigate the impacts of high percentages of RAP material in the performance of pavements under cold climate conditions. It is comprised of two main sections that were incorporated into the body of this dissertation as Part I and Part II. In Part I a reduced testing framework for analysis of …
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The socio-political influence of rap music as poetry in the urban community
<p>Rap, like poetry, is oral and traditionally set at a specified meter, maintains a consistent thought and is created to please the ear as well as the mind. I contend that rap music, just as traditional poetry, stands as not only as a means to express creativity on the part of African-Americans, …
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