Culture is what, how, and why we do the things we do. Culture is practices we do in our daily lives. It is the meanings that we create and materialities that mold our interactions. Culture is realized through our interactions and is self-governed, performed, and enacted. There are 6 building blocks that form what we know today as culture: 1. Norms, Values, and Beliefs 2. Frames and Symbolic Boundaries 3. Cultural Repertoires, Scripts, and Ideas/Knowledge 4. Discourses and Narratives 5. Institutions and Identities 6. Material Culture. This essay will go into detail on four of the six building blocks.
In Max Weber's "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," Weber illustrates how our four building blocks come into action in forming …show more content…
He would discuss how the increased divisions of labor that goes into how hip-hop music is made, produced, and distributed illustrates how art is a collective entity. Becker would want to focus on how hip-hop’s first MC, Coke La Rock and the only DJ he worked with DJ Kool Herc and the very minimal divisions of labor compared to how many artists have now. Coke La Rock and DJ Kool Herc did their first performance at Herc’s sister’s birthday party. DJ Kool Herc had turntables, speakers, and music while Coke La Rock had a microphone and those were the only materials and the only divisions of labor. Coke La Rock made a name for himself from performing at parties or throwing the parties himself and performing live, that how he spread his music. During the hip-hop renaissance Coke La Rock never recorded any records to sell, he created and performed out of pure joy for the art. Becker would say that Coke La Rock performed the core activity of lyric writing and majority of the labor involved. Becker would then emphasize how the today’s hip-hop artists’ tremendous amounts cooperative links such as support, ideas, equipment, money, and circulation are used in order for their music to be produced and distributed. The division of labor from people who specialized in particular tasks in the music industry such as songwriters, music …show more content…
Artists that began soon after Coke La Rock used synthesizers, drum machines, and live bands to create the music and beats that they would rap over. Today’s new technology allows anyone who has access to the internet the ability to download programs and apps like Garageband to create beats. It now longer required any musical knowledge or training to be able to produce music and beats, which could be sold and disturbed on websites like soundcloud.com. People are also able to DJ using their iPad, and purchase music online. With new ability to make and master music without living your coach Rubio would say is the production of a new social order. This has caused record labels to invest and monitor their artists and their music’s marketability in order for them survive in an overly saturated music industry. Hip-hop must appeal to not only the working class black community, but also appeal to middle and upper class society that will actually purchase their music. Rubio would analyze this problem a result relational materiality in which caused this watered down hip-hop
In Max Weber's "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," Weber illustrates how our four building blocks come into action in forming …show more content…
He would discuss how the increased divisions of labor that goes into how hip-hop music is made, produced, and distributed illustrates how art is a collective entity. Becker would want to focus on how hip-hop’s first MC, Coke La Rock and the only DJ he worked with DJ Kool Herc and the very minimal divisions of labor compared to how many artists have now. Coke La Rock and DJ Kool Herc did their first performance at Herc’s sister’s birthday party. DJ Kool Herc had turntables, speakers, and music while Coke La Rock had a microphone and those were the only materials and the only divisions of labor. Coke La Rock made a name for himself from performing at parties or throwing the parties himself and performing live, that how he spread his music. During the hip-hop renaissance Coke La Rock never recorded any records to sell, he created and performed out of pure joy for the art. Becker would say that Coke La Rock performed the core activity of lyric writing and majority of the labor involved. Becker would then emphasize how the today’s hip-hop artists’ tremendous amounts cooperative links such as support, ideas, equipment, money, and circulation are used in order for their music to be produced and distributed. The division of labor from people who specialized in particular tasks in the music industry such as songwriters, music …show more content…
Artists that began soon after Coke La Rock used synthesizers, drum machines, and live bands to create the music and beats that they would rap over. Today’s new technology allows anyone who has access to the internet the ability to download programs and apps like Garageband to create beats. It now longer required any musical knowledge or training to be able to produce music and beats, which could be sold and disturbed on websites like soundcloud.com. People are also able to DJ using their iPad, and purchase music online. With new ability to make and master music without living your coach Rubio would say is the production of a new social order. This has caused record labels to invest and monitor their artists and their music’s marketability in order for them survive in an overly saturated music industry. Hip-hop must appeal to not only the working class black community, but also appeal to middle and upper class society that will actually purchase their music. Rubio would analyze this problem a result relational materiality in which caused this watered down hip-hop