Tricia Rose In The Black Noise Analysis

Politics and social justice are two ideologies which are closely linked as most of the time political behavior lead to social justice or injustice. Simply put social justice is the mere justification of the status quo in the society. Many times there have been demonstrations against some sort of intolerable status quo as a result of various barriers to economic, social and political development such as inequality, war, poverty etc. While social justice may be termed as political driven, many a times music have been used to champion against social injustices as well as bring worldwide awareness on the same (Paul 2003.). This use of music to infer to social justice in the society has gone deeper to relate to specific cultures where groups of people identify strongly with …show more content…
Tricia Rose in the “Black Noise” expresses her feelings about the emerging hip pop which was surrounded by protests emanating from the post-industrial period. During this period, in a bid to match with the fast changing technology, economic and political development, the poor were ousted from town settlement and marginalization was the order of the day. The real hip-pop music sprout out during this time (Rick 1994). Listeners as well as dancers occupied all the streets and subways and in a way this served as a protest against the post-industrial injustices as the pop music signaled the spirited fight for such communities to retain their identities even in the face of radical development and urbanization. These occupying of the streets by dancing and listening people did not stop industrialization or the consequences which came with it but it provided a way to express dissatisfaction, a movement to champion the freedom of all in the urban