Terry Funk

It’s not often that I respond strongly to musicians that are just clearly having a great time. It’s not that I don’t like fun music, but I more often lean towards the other end of the spectrum, be it blues, rock, metal, indie or just heartbreaking songs regardless of genre. I’m just that kind of guy, I guess. But it’s hard to talk about Humming House without talking about fun, which is ultimately what their aptly titled album, Revelries (due out on March 24th), delivers in a tight 11 song…

Race relations between Asian Americans and Black Americans have always been rocky. In order to understand the historical relationship between Asian and Black Americans, it is important to understand the intersectionality of hip hop and how it’s shifted through history. There is so much racial tension between Asian and Black people and hip hop was used both to widen and close the gap between the two groups. Hip-hop for both Asian and Black people has been used as an act of rebellion, but despite…

Hip-hop is important to millennial and generation z students because it is the type of music they grew up with. To them hip hop is more than drugs and violence but about learning to understand others stories and their own. I believe Hip Hop should be taught in our curriculum. In the article “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride shows how hip hop is worth listening to before you conform with all the preconceived notions . “I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I’d ever heard” (McBride…

According to spotify 9.6 million people in the world listen to rap/hip hop. I usually listen to rap when i get home or when my little sister starts to talk or some times when i get made. When my sister starts talking i just put my headphones on and jam to loud music and ignore her. that is usually when i get home. when i am mad i put the headphones on and listen to my music on spotify. Rap is my favorite music. Most people listen to rap to get something out of ther head. Rap is something that…

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for me to dissolve myself from rap. Rap music can manipulate your brain because it contains so much explicit language and violence. The industry is full of fake and “wanna be’s”. Artists don’t consider the children ears who listen to their music they only care about the money they are making. The worse the rap industry can do is influence people. Most African-american’s listen to rap music because of the beats, lyrics, and sometimes the…

Hip hop culture, more commonly known as sub-genre rap, is often characterized by excessive violence compared to other popular culture genres like country-western. However, hip hop is the symptom of cultural violence, not the cause. It results from a prevalent problem of youth living in the racially stratified inner-city ghettos, thereby having sharpened socioeconomic worldviews through deep racial and economic disparities. This behavior is clearly portrayed in the book The Short and Tragic Life…

Everyone has their own interests in good music. But me I like fire rap music. A1 rap music consists of a beat that vibes, great lyrics and the rappers image. In this essay i will tell you everything you need to know about what fire rap music consists of. For a rap song to be good and blow up on the internet it has to have a good beat. A good beat will grab people's attention and get people hype. For example the beat in Chief Keef's song Bouncin is a fire beat. Everytime i listen to that…

Ghandnoosh, Nazgol. 2010. “‘Cross-Cultural’ Practices: Interpreting Non-African-American Participation in Hip-Hop Dance.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 33(9):1580-99. Retrieved 2015 ( http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/docview/758122989?accountid=14771 ). In this scholarly article, Ghandnoosh (2010) explores the interpretation of cultural practices made by participants of another race. She captures a wide range of participant views…

Rodriquez, Jason.(2006). “Color-Blind Ideology and the Cultural Appropriation of Hip- Hop.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35, no. 6 (2006): 645–68. By using ethnographic methods and interviews, Roriquez investigates how Caucasian youths culturally appropriate the hip-hop culture by maintaining the color-blind ideology in this article. Rodriquez (2007) maintains that “colour-blindness” is such a powerful ideological framework that in regards to hip-hop, it provides Caucasian…

During the career of Ma Rainey there was another woman who was having a good time in her music life. Her name is Bessie Smith, she had very humble beginning. Source 4 says “In childhood she danced on street corners for coins to help her family”. That was her beginning as an artist, even though she did did not have something similar to a big debut in a important place, she started from the bottom and continued going to the top. Bessie Smith was influenced by Ma Rainey a very important woman of…