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Hip Hop’s young identity
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Brain Storm
Hip Hop’s young identity
Author: Luke Thomsen
Hip hop is a cultural representation; not only of the generation and the music,
but also of the youth and its thoughts.
And never before has the impact been
analyzed like it is today.
In...
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Hip Hop’s young identity
Author: Luke Thomsen
Hip hop is a cultural representation; not only of the generation and the music,
but also of the youth and its thoughts.
And never before has the impact been
analyzed like it is today.
In an observation that Dr.
S.
Craig Watkins made,
professor at the University of Texas-Austin, he stated that hip-hop scholarship
focuses on interpreting content and culture.
It’s just that the scholars, who do these researches, need to examine the effect of
hip hop and rap songs and entertainment media like hip-hop culture and
understand what effect it has on the youth.
Whether it is just a mirror of what the
youth think or whether it even influences their social identity, is what really needs
to be understood.
From where I look at it, it is pretty evident that these questions are interdependent.
Something like, a wheel or a cycle.
Gone are the days when “books
were man’s best friends”.
Today, in this i-pod-addicted, music-channel-viewing
and disill
[Moins]
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identity,
influence,
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negatively,
note,
observer,
person,
social,
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today,
words,
young,
youth
