Hip hop dance

great strides towards becoming more accepting of the LGBTQ community, there is still a portion of the population that has not changed. And in hip hop culture today, it can be seen by many that homophobia is still prevalent. Joel Penney is quite aware of this as his article entitled, “We Don’t Wear Tight Clothes”: Gay Panic and Queer Style in Contemporary Hip Hop, is centered on the aforementioned idea. In the article, Penney discusses how the ongoing feud, between masculine gangsta rappers and…

Hip Hop- is a music genre formed in the United States in the 1970s which consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping. Hip Hop music developed as part of Hip Hop culture, which is a subculture that includes four key elements: DJing, MCing, graffiti writing, and beatboxing. It followed in the footsteps of earlier American musical genres such as blues, salsa, jazz, rag- time, funk, disco, and rock and roll by becoming one of the most popular genres of music worldwide.…

Hip Hop and Rap’s explicit lyrics cause individuals to be violent because the music promotes criminal behavior such as gangs, fighting, shooting and degradation of women. The degradation of women leads to a high prevalence of sexual abuse. Hip Hop and Rap convey disrespecting women as the norm, so men control and treat women as sex objects. The degradation of women also causes…

Throughout hip hop music’s history, community members have debated over what constitutes “real hip hop”, yet recent trends have proven that hip hop as a genre is very open and fluid, where an artist with a unique musical flow can blow up overnight and influence the hip hop music of tomorrow. Of course, hip hop music did not spring out of the blue, but rather it was a newly packaged form of musical delivery that ascended from the music that preceded it. Thus, hip hop was not just a music style…

When the word hip hop comes to mind what do you think of? Swearing, violence, drugs, money, gangs or how about the ones who created it, I know there is one thing that you would never think k of when discussing hip hop and that is Korean hip hop. Hip Hop is defined as a cultural movement that was created by the disadvantage African-American youth living in the south Bronx during the 1970s. Hip Hop or more commonly known as rapping is a complex culture filled with four important elements.…

Cultural Destruction In Imani Perry's article, " The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto Negotiating Spaces for Women", Perry criticizes the way black woman's are dressing in inappropriate attire, such as bathing suits or clothing that expose their body parts in music videos. She explains how hip hop culture is attacking black women identity and making them look like a commodity buying, and sell just for the pleasure of men. However black women body language on the videos are saying that they are…

The History of Rap/Hip-Hop Rapping, also known as rhyming, spitting, and emceeing it is still referred to as rap and hip-hop. But, it seems that nobody ever talks about the story of how rap and hip-hop started. The history of rap and hip-hop was not only the start of a genre but, something new and creative. Rap and Hip-hop has an interesting origin story, has influenced by different genres of music, and created a new movement of freedom of speech. Dating back to the 60s and 70s in the South…

Hip Hop in society is anything but a word. It is a living thing that grows, changes, and expresses itself as it goes through this. No matter how it may change though, it has always had one single meaning for its existence: peace; and with this meaning for existence, there must always be nine elements that are presence in order for Hip Hop to fulfill its purpose. The first element of Hip Hop, is dancing. Usually those who dance in Hip Hop are considered either the B-boy or the B-girl, and they…

even to the dances and it should not be misused. Reflecting on the meaning hip-hop holds for my family and how people can so easily take and misconstrue it made me curious to the extents of cultural appreciation and appropriation, and how they are displayed differently. When does a person stop appreciating the culture and begin to appropriate it and how is that defined? These questions and interest in cultural appropriation are more relevant than ever in today’s American society, as hip-hop…

The topic I am doing falls under music specifically hip-hop music, and the topic I would like to discuss beneath that subject is widespread misogyny in hip-hop culture, positive and negative of hip-hop and its influence on today's’ youth. • Main focus on Treatment of women, representatives of violence, integration, abandonment, alienation, self-hatred. Audience. This paper is aimed at all ages because of the varied fan base of this music type. however, the primary audience of this…