I can swear that I submitted this blog last week but oh well what can I do. This blog thing has been acting funny lately and since I was looking at my blogs I noticed that this one did not get submitted the day that I did. Well here it is good thing I saved it one word.
When I looked at this question I quickly thought of the genre of Rap music. One of the major things that came to my head was Ostinato which we learned on Monday which characterized African music. The reoccurring beat of rap music is a clear ostinato which characterizes this type of music perfectly, without that you wouldn’t really be able to classify a certain song or artist as rap. This beat must also be perfect to dance to with lots of base and a moderate tempo. Other characteristics that pertain to Rap music would be the choice of lyrics which usually consists of cars, money, and women for a better term it’s pretty weird to here a song without this choice of topics for lyrics but it does occur. One other thing that I can here when it comes to rap music is a catchy heavily repeated chorus for example “Sexy Back” by Justin Timberlake.
When it comes to the image or identity that groups of this particular genre is trying to project I would say it truly tries to emphasize the image of the rapper as a pimp with lots of money, cars, and hoes. Since these are the common topics sung about in this particular genre it is hard to argue against this. If someone doesn’t want to be viewed one way they would not do things that would make them be viewed that way, so in my opinion these rap artist want this image of rappers to continue since many do not stray away from such vulgar lyrics.
1 comment:
Hi Sandra. I gave you credit for this assignment because a couple of other people had problems too. Your lecture was good in that you started out with the premise that American music is necessarily diverse. You could have included more detail as to exactly what you would cover, maybe break it up: "In the first hour, I would cover..." You could have also made the case that even though outsiders may think that rock and rap are two very different genres, they do have similarities in that they can both have political or social themes, and that their roots reveal African American influence. Your overall grade is an 8
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