Lindy Hop

Zumba, an imbuement of Latin-style move that has surprised the wellness world, joins hip shaking, uproarious music and finish flexibility from hindrances. Workouts don't should be an errand any longer. Rather, it can be changed into a fun and social move party with quick and infectious music. Zumba classes give an extensive calorie blaze through oxygen consuming action finished with interim preparing where the normal individual will smolder around 600 to 1,000 calories in a solitary hour-long…

In a business and culture dominated by males, the narcocorrido, “La Reina Del Sur” by Los Tigres Del Norte, is considered an anthem towards the empowerment of females among the narcoculture. A narcocorrido is a song-style under the regional Mexican music genre that narrates a story related to the drug business (Beezley 11). In a music industry that tends to narrate and honor men’s experiences, Los Tigres Del Norte sing a narcocorrido to celebrate a different character: Teresa Mendoza, a female…

regarded as inferior. The song begins with the rhetorical question, “Have you ever been hated or discriminated against?” to which Eminem replies, “I have; I've been protested and demonstrated against; Picket signs for my wicked rhymes…” Historically, hip-hop music was primarily produced and associated to African Americans. Therefore, from the get-go, Eminem was already…

point in the reggaeton’s success was the debut album of Tego Calderon, El Abayarde in 2002. Fusing an experimental reggaeton style strongly rooted in the working- class Caribbean aesthetics of classic salsa with a strong dose of African American hip-hop. His invention purposefully reached back in time to working-class, Afro- diasporic musical roots. With his lyrics, he has created a revolutionary movement inspired by his authentic street roots of Santurce in Puerto Rico, because he was creating…

Kanye West is an artist whose works can never be replicated. If you start with his first studio album, The College Dropout, West brings an entire new style of rap to the genre of hip hop. This album focused on topics such as consumerism, religion, and family instead of ordinary rap subjects like drugs or crimes. In his song “All Falls Down,” West scrutinizes the problems with college using lyrics like this: “She has no idea what she doin' in college/That major that she majored in don't make no…

Arts Students in colleges or universities have complained that why they have to take music apprieciation or art apprieciation if they are majoring in biology or law. According to Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education by Yo-Yo Ma, “The value behind arts integration-collaboration, flexible thinking, and disciplined imagination- lead to the capacity to innovate” (Ma 258). In today society people live in a world where art is all around them, but they don’t know it. This is why universities…

It 's a calm Friday afternoon, and I figured what’s better than having a little nostalgic moment and watching old hip-hop videos. I started with Biggies ‘s "Hypnotize" then I moved all the way to Lil Wayne’s "Bling Bling" . I thought to myself, “ My, has Hip-Hop fashion changed” from Armani suits, to tank tops and sagging jeans. But one thing I can say, these men in the beginning of their careers have never been considered homosexual because no matter what they wore it was still considered…

I have always enjoyed listening to many different genres of music from jazz, to pop, to R&B, and Hip Hop; however, I have to admit that two particular genres, Neo-Soul and Hip Hop had the most impact in creating who I am today. I don’t think that I really understood how important music was until I started high school. I have always been a musical soul due to fact that I have been singing…

Stereotypes have been outcasted in most forms of popular culture, but a few are left that utilize these ideas. Music genres like rap or hip-hop stereotype women and colored people, but when it is used by a television personality, people become outraged. One incident in particular, a famous cook, Paula Deen, used degrading terms to describe an African-American, but those and similar terms are used in popular music today (Dowd). All minorities alike will become outraged when derogatory terms are…

The title of this article is “Contraindications in a Hip-Hop World: An Ethnographic Study of Black Women Hip-Hop Fans in Washington, DC.,” written by Tia L. Smith-Cooper. This article was published with UMI Microform in June 2002. In this article, Tia L. Smith-Cooper is scrutinizing the current (in 2002) problem of male rappers objectifying females and women still being content with this fact and continuing to be hip-hop fans. Not only does she attack male rappers, she also attacks female…