George Emmett talks about the evolution of hip hop culture and how it rose and spread. Emmett mentions that hip hop evolved during the 1970’s as a liberation movement. Hip hop is grounded in the traditions of U.s born blacks, first and second generation Latinos and Latinas, and people of Caribbean decent. Emmett shows that hip hop is a method for expressing their thoughts on social commentary, economy, racism and more. Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi.
Sternheimer feels it is these other over looked factors that are truly the cause of “young killers” (210). These factors include personal traits, background and family. Sternheimer also blames politician’s claims for the rise of concern for video game violence (209). She briefly writes of law suits on video game producers and points out none have ever been won (210). Sternheimer wants us to question why there are “young killers” (210) arising from suburban families who are considered by most to be decent, well
Can You Pass the Acid Test? In 1967 America became aware of a new movement started in California that was rapidly sweeping the country known as the hippie movement. Followers of this movement depended on psychedelic music and drugs to experience a heightened sense of consciousness. Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, depicts the early years of how this counterculture arose and the adventures of author Ken Kesey and his followers known as the Merry Pranksters. Wolfe's main reason for writing this book was to document Kesey and the Pranksters as he felt they were beginning a new religion.
Mary Shelley’s gothic promethean novel, Frankenstein (1818), was released during the industrial revolution as romanticism was thriving, while Ridley Scott’s futuristic sci-fi Blade runner (1992) grew with the dawning of a capitalistic increasingly globalised and technologically driven society. The comparative study of these texts encompasses themes of humanity and playing God through a tone of moral warning and allows the responder to explore how similar content in different contexts will reflect changing, but also constant values. Through the use of filmic techniques, Scott demonstrates how nature and religion are absent in a world overrun by consumerism and technology. Due to her context, Shelley alternatively uses imagery and allusions to hint at the consequences humanity will suffer if they try to better God through the misuse of science and the corruption of nature. Both of these texts reflect the distinctive contexts in which they were written; although separated by over 100 years of history, they still present similar issues and dilemmas which affected the form and features of the individual texts.
Controversial Issues in Entertainment: Hip Hop COM/225 Instructor: Yonilee Miller July 27, 2015 By: Shantoria Lee Controversial Issues in Entertainment: Hip Hop Keany (2014),“Starting off with becoming popular through a peace movement for teenagers and young adults called Universal Zulu Nation that was to help eliminate gang violence and bad behavior in NYC, hip hop has stirred a ton of controversy since then. Hip hop nowadays is, without an argument, a major influence and source of promotion on violence, homophobia, sexism, and drug use”()*. The controversial issue here is how much of hip hop music has a negative effects on the community, most notably black people, and how something needs to be done about it. Some rappers use lyrics
Every culture uses music to express their beliefs or feelings. From the early days of slavery, to recent pop culture, hip hop, rock, jazz or techno, music has shaped Americans into what we are today. Music not only gives artists an avenue to express their beliefs, it also gives the listener the feeling that there are people in the world that has the same feelings that they have. Not all music has a meaning or a message. Some music is just that, music; beats of a drum, strums of a guitar, electronic collaborations to make a melody, with no real message.
The Pedestrian In his thrilling short story “The Pedestrian”, Ray Bradbury successfully provoke the reader to recognise that the obsessive use of technology is brainwashing the unique human characteristics while technology dominates the world. He skilfully delivered this through the use of context, setting and characterisation. Ray Bradbury wrote this short story of a futuristic dystopian world in the early fifties, a time when technology was growing rapidly fast which resulted in a technological invasion of work places and homes promoting the fear that people would be replaced by machines. Furthermore, Bradbury was also influenced by the paranoia regarding the threat of Communist infiltration and the subsequent corruption of the American
Charisma The anti-establishment counterculture of the 1960s provided a strong base for Manson to achieve a charismatic influence on his followers. He had remarkable talents in dance and music that earned him attention within a counterculture obsessed with a musical style that symbolized the culture's identity. Through his music, he built associations with established bands, elevating his social prestige. In a culture whose ethos involved a deep-seated mistrust of authority, Manson's career as a convict actually promoted, rather than detracted from, his image as being trustworthy. These factors worked together to lend credence to the interpretations of society and music lyrics that formed the foundation of his vision of an impending apocalypse.
One can say whatever they like about the times that we live in except that they are far from boring. While the times we live in lack the positive excitement of the 1920s or 1950s, they do recall another period of recent American history much more tumultuous though no less interesting: the 1960s. In many ways, particularly in the political mobilization of the youth, our times bear striking similarities to the 1960s. Other similarities include pervasive racial bigotry and a strong resistance against such intolerance, imperialist wars based upon specious rationales and with dubious value to the average American, pervasive poverty largely obscured by images of prosperity, trivial concerns and entertainment prioritized over more serious matters
Raymond Williams' theory of Technological determinism states that it is technology that drives social change and not the other way around. This essay will argue that theory. The arguments for technological determinism are that it has changed the way people live their lives. The TV and Internet were invented as a result of technical/scientific research. Their power as a medium of news, info, entertainment is so great that it altered all other media and entertainment.