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The beauty of hip hop is that it is malleable. It is not defined by strict boundaries but by multiple characteristics. Young artist J. Cole (2013) explains this best by stating in an interview, “I think there’s no rules [in rap]. You can say what you want. That’s your poetic license: to test people’s boundaries.” (p.1) The results of such malleability and the need to experiment within the unwritten boundaries of hip hop are the birth of different styles and sectors/scenes in America. These sectors

It 's fascinating how progression can be traced back to a beginning point in any field. The history of Rock & Roll isn 't close to being a perfect story. Along with the history of our country, the beginning is distasteful and gloomy. As we travel back to earlier times, the slave trade is the starting block to the genre "Blues". As time goes on like moving forward in a song, different events unfold leading to the inspiration that created the later of music genre 's. Through these events we get a glimpse

Culture of Trinidad According to the encyclopedia, culture is defined as “The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought [www.wikipedia.com].” In Trinidad these particular aspects are very distinct to the people's daily lives on the island. The diversity of actual cultures and ethnicities on the island has melted together over the centuries to create a Trinidadian culture of its own. There are influences from

after Sundiata fled Niani to conquer Mali. Nina Triban was miserable being Soumaoro’s wife, and decided the only way to survive was to pretend to hate Sundiata. Seeking out a plan to learn of Soumaoro’s magical powers and numerous totems, Nina and her griot, Balla Fassèkè, sought out a great plan. Soumaoro is flattered by their acts of sneakiness, and reveals his secrets to them. After learning of all of these secrets, Balla Fassèkè and Nina Triban fled the country in pursuit of a better life. Through

For this assignment, I will be covering Robert Harrison’s book, The Song of Roland. The setting of this tale evolved around the Middle Ages during a tragic time marked by religious upheaval in Europe. Islam and Christianity were two new religions coming to power. With the Roman Catholic Church becoming the dominant religious force in most of the western world, they eventually became corrupt. The uproar started due to the blasphemy of the Saracens similar Trinity to the one of the Catholic faith.

The United States had never elected a president of a Catholic religion, and above all a source of Irish Boston. For the record, during the late 19th century and early 20th century, According To the Griot "Irish immigrants were very scorned by so-called Americans 'native '." In the 1870s and 1880s the Irish are drunks and the silly caricature. Going to the policy, Irish began to gain momentum and power, especially in Boston or lily was too populated

INTRO Examination into the true heart of experience and meaning, Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage looks at the structures of identity and the total transformation of the self. The novel talks about the hidden assumptions of human and literary identity and brings to view the real problems of these assumptions through different ideas of allusion and appropriation. As the novel tells Rutherford Calhoun’s transformation of un-awareness allows him to cross “the sea of suffering” (209) making him forget

The influence of Hip-Hop has never been as great as it is in this day and age. Often dismissed by a majority of America as simply a fad, hip hop has become a global phenomenon and has arguably been the most popular form of music for the past three decades. Hip-Hop has influenced art, language, fashion, culture, and sports. This music has been used to teach elementary level children, it has been taught in undergraduate universities and serves as a bridge for hundreds of philanthropies. The influence

The evolution of rap during the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s until now. Introduction: What is rap? Rap is defined in the dictionary as: “a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.” Which implies that rap is defined by its fast, narcissistic, aggressive, and rhyming lyrics. Simply

Question 1 0 / 4 pts Using the drop-down box, indicate which of the following statements about polyrhythms is/are true. Using the drop-down box, indicate which of the following statements about polyrhythms is/are true. You Answered "Polyrhythms" means "multiple rhythms.”                     Correct Answer TRUE You Answered Polyrhythms are an element in most if not all sub-Saharan African music traditions.                     Correct Answer TRUE You Answered Polyrhythms reflect