Make Love Not War While the popular anthem of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll sent shock waves across America, the message of peace and love brought light to the new civil rights movement and the devastating war in Vietnam. At the center of this revolution was the hippie. Often referred to as freaks, stoners, and lazy, dirty, bums, the hippie experienced extreme social discrimination. What most failed to realize was that hippies were actually the most influential figures of the time period. Hippies were vital to American counterculture, fueling a movement to stretch accepted values, increase environmental awareness, and open ears to a generation of new music.
I asked him if hip-hop had any influence over him and he replied, “Yes, but don’t ask me how. Hip-hop has changed a lot since I first started listening to it-- the music is more elaborate, the beats are bouncier, it’s not reflective of society anymore. It’s more about overindulgence” Dale does believe that hip-hop is a great unifier. According to Dale, there is a wide range of subject matter and the under lying themes of frustration, rage, and anger are something young people can relate to, which according to him is why it has become so popular. (Banks,
At the time of the Rastafarian Movement, Jamaicans began to create their own dialect in attempts to protest the imposed English language. Many of these Jamaicans were Rastas who took the dialect further by rearranging English words that have a negative tone. Dialect is very different from an official language. The pronunciations of words in America would not be considered a dialect based on the fact that it was not intentionally
I have always taken interest in the Jamaican culture, and this experience helped me to overcome my zone of ethnocentrism. The American way of life is all I am knowledgeable of because I have never taken out the opportunity to really learn about another culture. The interview I conducted introduced me to another culture, and showed me a whole new insight of Jamaicans that I was not familiar with. I had the privilege to interview Ashley Codling, an attendee at the Fort Valley State University. She was born in Negril, Jamaica and raised there until her mother put her up for adoption to a Jamaican, who served in the United States Army.
Most people may not even realize it, but songwriters incorporate world events into the songs we hear every day. Take for example, “The southern rapper Young Jeezy, who recorded The Recession last year…” (RPC 89). He sings about the economy in a lot of his songs because it’s a way that singers/songwriters use their music to reach out to people who do not watch or care to watch the news. It is a way of using entertainment as an informative tool. “Sometimes normal musical imagery crosses a line and becomes, so to speak pathological, as when a certain fragment of music repeats itself incessantly, sometimes maddeningly, for days on end.”(100).
A comparative overview of the religious and socio-economic histories of the Chesapeake, New England and Mid-Atlantic colonies shows the evolved societies contrasted culturally as a direct result of diverse local economies and divergent religious influences manifested in the establishment of unique church state paradigms. The human need for freedom of religion arrived on the Atlantic seaboard by the boatload. As dominant religions were challenged “back home” the persecuted dissident group fled to the “Promised Land” in the New World. This recurring Exodus theme was the proclaimed impetus behind many colonial start-ups in British North America. These new communities flourished or failed based as much on the socio-economic viability of
There was an Explosion of black culture. The element in the reality of conditions was Hughes’s purpose and not to discriminate any one in a particular way by his work done. The fiction also attracted huge attention from the affected populace which became really inspired. His new impressions and new insights about race, class, and ethnicity in Mexico, where his ability to speak Spanish and his appearance often had been determined to allow him to blend in. We can say that the Harlem Renaissance was born to make music a global expansion of artists and writers to influence their origins.
The government and the media played a significant role in attempting to influence the American people’s perceptions and political cognitions in the cases of the Panama/Haiti invasions. We were able to see evidence of their success or lack of success in generating the type of cognition that Edelman discusses in the videos. The Bush administration proved to be very successful in generating public compliance for his efforts in Panama. We can identify several ways in which they influenced public opinion and people’s cognitions about what they perceived. The “60 Minutes” and “Panama Deception” videos exposed the blatant manipulation and deception carried out by the Bush administration and in the US news coverage during the time of the Panama
Although his cause and motivation, raising awareness and donors for his bone marrow foundation was admirable his efforts were overshadowed by negative connotations associated with his music. Effectively, to be successful the artist is often forced to make compromises in their music, not only for the public but to fit the mold of what record labels expect to be financially successful. In Jay-z's Moment of Clarity, he writes," I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars, they criticize me for it yet they all yell holla- as rappers must decide what’s most important, and I can't help the poor if I’m one of them, so I got rich and gave back, to me that's the win-win". Nelly was effectively attempting to do the same.
The native people accepted Islam for many reasons and thus allowed leaders to imply new rules, regulations, and standards into society. My belief is that the government used Islam as a way to manipulate the people into accepting things without revolts, but the people probably saw it is a great religious reform. Islam, although seeming to unify during this time, has often caused problems in the present regarding religious rivalries and terrorist groups. The introduction of Islam in Africa created social, religious, and technological advances such as the creation of Swahili, the conversion of thousands of people and the building of mosques. Although some parts of Africa remained untouched by Islam, many others were often advanced in society.