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Kehinde Wiley’s large-scale, brightly colored, highly patterned portraits of African American subjects are a salute to traditional portraiture as well as a critique of the art historical focus on the privileged male Caucasian. The artist scouts out ordinary black men of ages 18 to 25 from urban settings to copy poses from works by master Western painters like Titian and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The photographs of their poses become Wiley’s references for his enormous, dazzlingly vibrant portraits

Jazz Styles in America Jazz music has been a part of America for many centuries. It has influenced many time periods and ways of life in America. "'Tin Pan Alley was a real alley on East Fourteenth Street near Third (in New York), but it was never just a place. Tin Pan Alley has come to be known for an era of songwriting when many musical ideas mixed together to form American popular music. Tin Pan Alley brought together many styles: blues, jazz, musical scores, and ragtime"' (Burton Lane

Music, Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Encyclopedia Britannica defines music as, “art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony”. Music was considered beautiful at one time. Musical artist in this day and age are putting their drive to succeed well before their personal morals. The explicit language warnings on music covers are not enough. The foul

1986, the west coast was heading towards a new era of violence, gangs, racism, and music. By 1990 California would become a center of U.S. culture, controversy and the birth of a new American culture. Music groups such as Run DMC, A Tribe Called Quest, and Public Enemy, were just a few of the cultural icons to influence music. But no group impacted music such as Compton rap group, N.W.A. N.W.A. brought a new culture to music and made not only white people, but the whole country aware of what

The majority of the rap/hip-hop listeners are young adults and children. Not only do their lyrics glamorize the use of alcohol and illegal drugs. Some of this music is horridly filled with slurs. The New York Times acknowledges that “Americans from ages 15 to 18 listening to 2

Tupac “2Pac” Shakur was, and remains, one of the most popular rappers of all time. He was born in Harlem, New York City on June 16,1971, But his real name is “Lesane Parish Crooks” but later then, his mother changed his name to ‘Tupac Shakur’, Tupac Shakur is a gifted, talented, parionad soul and was very careful of what kind of friends he would choose to hang around with and would only trust people that were close to him and loyal towards him, but When he was just a teenager, his mother, ‘Afeni

Jimmie Simpson University of Phoenix Although some may argue that gang activity and youth involvement has grown exponentially through the years, it has been an ongoing epidemic for decades. Methods, levels of violence, rules, and motivations may have changed over the years, but the basic infrastructure has remained the same. The earliest accounts of youth involvement in gangs first appeared in Europe or Mexico, while the earliest record of youth gangs appearing in the United States

The whole gang theme seems to be catching on through out all aspects of life. There are even reports of a homosexual gang that wears the rainbow as their calling card. There will never be a slow down in gang violence once there are members of the hip-hop community that glorify the gang lifestyle. Rappers such as Snoop

Zimbabwe, to the Southwest of Namibia and to the Southeast of Mozambique. To the East is the Indian Ocean, to the West is the Atlantic Ocean, and to the South is the confluence of the two oceans. It is about twice the size of Texas. The physical makeup of the nation is that there are the Eastern and Western Plateau Slopes along with the Kalahari Basin starting in the South and ending in the North-Central region. Located in the East lies a mountain range by the name of the Drakensberg Mountains, tallest of

The Notorious B.I.G.’s Unsolved Murder Christopher Wallace, also known as The Notorious B.I.G., was born on May 21, 1972, at ‘St. Mary’s Hospital’ in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Voletta Wallace and Selwyn George Latore and was their only child. His mother was a Jamaican preschool teacher and his father was a small-time politician and welder. He had a difficult childhood as his father left the family when he was just two, leaving his mother to take up two jobs to support the family. He