Flow

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell Ohriner
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Music Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
South Bronx ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Voice Flow ◽  
Computational Music Analysis

Originating in dance parties in the South Bronx in the late 1970s, hip hop and rap music have become a dominant style of popular music in the United States and a force for activism all over the world. So, too, has scholarship on this music grown, yet much of this scholarship, employing methods drawn from sociology and literature, leaves unaddressed the expressive musical choices made by hip-hop artists. This book addresses flow, the rhythm of the rapping voice. Flow presents theoretical and analytical challenges not encountered elsewhere. It is rhythmic as other music is rhythmic. But it is also rhythmic as speech and poetry are rhythmic. Key concepts related to rhythm, such as meter, periodicity, patterning, and accent, are treated independently in scholarship of music, poetry, and speech. This book reconciles those approaches, theorizing flow by integrating the methods of computational music analysis and humanistic close reading. Through the analysis of large collections of verses, it addresses questions in the theories of rhythm, meter, and groove in the unique ecology of rap music. Specifically, the work of Eminem clarifies how flow relates to text, the work of Black Thought clarifies how flow relates to other instrumental streams, and the work of Talib Kweli clarifies how flow relates to rap’s persistent meter. Although the focus throughout is rap music, the methods introduced are appropriate for other genres mix voices and more rigid metric frameworks and further extends the valuable work on hip hop from other perspectives in recent years.

scholarly journals Hip-Hop Music and Social Identity - An Analysis on the Construction of Jim Smith in the Movie ‘8 Mile’

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Yi Wang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
Hip Hop Music ◽  
American Society ◽  
Sharp Criticism ◽  
The U.S

When it comes to American hip-hop music and rap music, people always think of the African American singers in loose clothes, the flashing lights on the dirty stage, all kinds of alcohol and cigarettes, as well as many drunken scenes. However, such a familiar scene is indeed an authentic portrayal of the United States. If you have heard about hip hop music, it is not difficult to find that many hip-hop lyrics are often full of dirty abuse, cold ridicule and sharp criticism. In a sense, hip hop music and rap music can be considered a kind of 'voice resistance' from the lower class of American society. However, it has not changed their current situation, and hip hop music and rap music are still regarded as inappropriate for children and teenagers. It is noteworthy that in recent years, with the popularity of hip-hop music, people from all over the world have gradually paid attention to this unique music style. At the same time, more and more people from the lower class of the United States are also be concerned by the U.S. government.

Shop talk: The influence of hip hop on Filipino‐American barbers in San Diego

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Vito
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The United States ◽  
Filipino Americans ◽  
Filipino American ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Shop Talk

Barber culture frequently intersects with hip hop. Barbershops often incorporate rap music, street wear apparel and popular culture into their daily environment. In tandem, an important part of hip hop culture is the haircuts and designs that people choose to get. Many Filipino-Americans across the United States utilize barber and hip hop culture to help create their own unique sense of identity ‐ a sense of identity forged in the fires of diaspora and postcolonial oppression. In this first instalment of the GHHS ‘Show and Prove’ section ‐ short essays on hip hop visual culture, arts and images ‐ I illustrate the ways in which Filipino-Americans in San Diego use barber shops both as a means of entrepreneurialism and as a conduit to create a cultural identity that incorporates hip hop with their own histories of migration and marginalization. I interview Filipino-American entrepreneur Marc Canonizado, who opened his first San Diego-based business, Goodfellas Barbershop Shave Parlor, in 2014. We explore the complex linkages between barbershops, Filipino-Americans and hip hop culture, as well as discuss his life story and plans for the future.

scholarly journals Rap Music

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin McCoy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Latinx Youth

Rap is the musical practice of hip hop culture that features vocalists, or MCs, reciting lyrics over an instrumental beat that emerged out of the political and economic transformations of New York City after the 1960s. Black and Latinx youth, many of them Caribbean immigrants, created this new cultural form in response to racism, poverty, urban renewal, deindustrialization, and inner-city violence. These new cultural forms eventually spread beyond New York to all regions of the United States as artists from Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami, and Chicago began releasing rap music with their own distinct sounds. Despite efforts to demonize and censor rap music and hip hop culture, rap music has served as a pathway for social mobility for many black and Latinx youth. Many artists have enjoyed crossover success in acting, advertising, and business. Rap music has also sparked new conversations about various issues such as electoral politics, gender and sexuality, crime, policing, and mass incarceration, as well as technology.

scholarly journals Rap in Music Therapy with Appalachian Youth with Adverse Childhood Experiences

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica S. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Supervision Process ◽  
Adverse Childhood

Children and adolescents in Appalachia are often exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences and may have higher levels of depression, anxiety, and aggression than youth in other areas of the United States. The unique challenges of working with youth in Appalachia and the unexpected prevalence of rap as a preferred genre are summarized in this article. Rap is a frequently requested genre with youth in Appalachian Ohio and the youth in the area frequently identify with common themes in rap such as social criticism, social empowerment, humanistic values, and negative behavior criticism. Despite success with these methods within music therapy sessions, this Caucasian music therapist has experienced internal conflict due to the potential for cultural appropriation by using rap music in music therapy with clients who are not indigenous to Hip Hop Kulture. Discussion of the implications of therapeutic application, this therapist’s self-reflections and supervision process, potential for appropriation, and personal outcomes are included.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE AND THE ADVANTAGE OF AMERICAN HIP HOP TO THE RISING ASIAN RAPPERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mayza Nisrin Abielah
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
The World

Cultural imperialism aims at how dominant culture affects other cultures to gain control of certain cultures and create the view that their dominant culture is the center for all countries in the world, which will create uniformity around the world. Therefore, this study will discuss how Asian rappers are influenced by American hip hop culture and how they benefitted from their careers’ success. The theory used in this study is cultural imperialism by John Tomlinson to see the influence of cultural imperialism in American hip hop culture to Asian rappers. The method used in this study is qualitative research by Creswell. The result shows that America’s cultural imperialism influences Asian Rappers by adopting its culture, language, and style of American hip hop. However, its influence is not harmful since the Asian rappers use this to gain more recognition from people, especially in Western, and to be accepted in representing Asian immigrants in the United States.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph C. Ewoodzie
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx ◽  
Popular Narrative ◽  
The World ◽  
Rock N Roll

The first section provides includes an assessment of what can be added to our understanding of how hip hop started. It points especially to areas for in which more data are needed. It also provides sketches of how one might use the theoretical framework developed in this work to study the evolution of hip hop beyond the 1970s. The second section concerns how the theoretical arguments in this book can go beyond the world of hip hop and be put to use in studies of the birth of similar entities, such as other musical forms (rock n’ roll or jazz), professions, academic disciplines, racial groups, and nations. The final sections of the chapter presents the substantive implications of this work. As opposed to the popular narrative that portrays life in the South Bronx during the 1970s as the quintessence of social and personal disorganization, the story of hip hop shows that, at least among youth, the South Bronx was a place of creative vibrancy with its own form of social order. It argues that, if we look closely, we shall see that other American ghettoes also exhibited (and continue to exhibit) such vivacity.

Language, identity and unintelligibility: A case study of the rap group Higher Brothers

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Jin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Verbal Art ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
Global Identities

The Chengdu-based quartet Higher Brothers recently became the first China-born hip hop group to gain global fame. As rap music – originally a local, ethnic African American culture in the United States – has been continually relocalized all over the world and thus globalized, the Higher Brothers have undergone another process of glocalization. This presents a new case study to further examine the dynamics between the global and the local. Because rap is an intensely verbal art, this article explores how the Higher Brothers construct and negotiate their complicated and multiple (local, national and global) identities from the perspective of language. It analyses the language used in their songs – Sichuan Chengdu Mandarin, Standard Mandarin (Putonghua) and English – before and after they signed with 88rising, the media company that brought the group to the West. Due to the rappers’ distinctive ways of vocal production, many of their trap-style songs prove hard to understand not only for global audiences but also for most Chinese national audiences and even for the quartet’s local audiences. Drawing on recent studies of mumble rap, this article explores the politics and sonic aesthetics of unintelligibility of the Chinese trap music.

scholarly journals The Alert Collector: Hip Hop in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Holly Boyer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
The United States ◽  
South Bronx ◽  
Gangsta Rap ◽  
American Society

Hip hop is a ubiquitous part of American society in 2015—from Kanye West announcing his future presidential bid to discussions of feminism surrounding Nikki Minaj’s anatomy, to Kendrick Lamar’s concert with the National Symphony Orchestra, to Questlove leading the Tonight Show Band, hip hop has exerted its influence on American culture in every way and form.Hip hop’s origin in the early 1970s in the South Bronx of New York City is most often attributed to DJ Kool Herc and his desire to entertain at a party. In the 1980s, hip hop continued to gain popularity and speak about social issues faced by young African Americans. This started to change in the 1990s with the mainstream success of gangsta rap, where drugs, violence, and misogyny became more prominent, although artists who focused on social issues continued to create. The 2000s saw rap and hip hop cross genre boundaries, and innovative and alternative hip hop grew in popularity.

Hip-Hop and Trivialisation of Martin Luther King Jr. in Didier Awadi’s “Dans mon rêve”

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Ives S. Loukson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Black People ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
Martin Luther King

As far as hip-hop is concerned, it is a truism that, Didier Awadi counts as one of its influential leading figures. The famous musician from Senegal takes advantage of hip-hop as medium and participates in disseminating its values in the world. Awadi’s creativity aims at conscientising Black people whose misery, according to him, is due to an internalised negativity about themselves. The artist pursues this objective in “Dans mon rêve” by staging MLK as a historic benchmark and source of inspiration to Africans. My paper attempts to highlight why the use of hip-hop as medium of pop culture does not effectively serve that creditable objective by Awadi. I also review the provocative trope of African pop-artist as a modern griot, raised a decade ago by the United States-based scholars. Theoretically, Stuart Hall’s conception of culture and Guy Debord’s theoretical complexity in his attempt to dismantle the monopoly of the spectacle inform the study.

THE INFLUENCE AND THE ADVANTAGE OF AMERICAN HIP HOP TO THE RISING ASIAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mayza Nisrin Abielah
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
The World

Cultural imperialism aims at how dominant culture affects other cultures to gain control of certain cultures and create the view that their dominant culture is the center for all countries in the world, which will create uniformity around the world. Therefore, this study will discuss how Asian rappers are influenced by American hip hop culture and how they benefitted from their careers’ success. The theory used in this study is cultural imperialism by John Tomlinson to see the influence of cultural imperialism in American hip hop culture to Asian rappers. The method used in this study is qualitative research by Creswell. The result shows that America’s cultural imperialism influences Asian Rappers by adopting its culture, language, and style of American hip hop. However, its influence is not harmful since the Asian rappers use this to gain more recognition from people, especially in Western, and to be accepted in representing Asian immigrants in the United States.

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