Today we continued with our discussions. There were three groups: Chapter 4, Chapter 5-6 and Chapter 7. Some students don't realize the importance of conversation about readings. There were three handouts: a new one was on Introductions and Conclusions, the other was a copy of a page on revision strategies from Hacker. You can use this to articulate what you want to happen when you visit the writing center. I'm still working on essays. I certainly hope to be finished before midterms :-) If you know any graduate students in Humanities who need a job, let me know.
We wrote a introduction to an essay on the word "thug." It's a definition essay obviously, but it is also an argument. I chose this word for the scholarship Dyson devotes to it in Chapter 3, There is No Malcolm X in My Textbook. (There is no Malcolm X in this chapter either.)
Students were to look at their hip hop lexicon and choose a word to analyze in an introductory paragraph. You don't have to type it. Bring the introduction into class tomorrow.
The following is an example using the word: Thug. I revised the sentence I jotted down on the board. Oh, the quotes come from the first seven entries in http://www.urbandictionary.com/
"Come into my world and you can see that we iz more then thugs/With just a little twist of harmony we smokin' warriors." Bone thugs
Thug is a word that describes a lifestyle which is both sacred and profane. Popularized by hip hop icon Tupac Shakur, the rap artist epitomized T.H.U.G. life, "an acronym coined by Flesh-n-Bone of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, that stands for 'Trues Humbly United Gathering Souls'" (Urban Dictionary.com). Tupac had the term tattooed on his stomach (ouch!) and when he was killed old ladies like Nikki Giovanni, poet and faculty at Virginia Tech, tattooed the term on their shoulders or arms. It became an even larger fraternity of sorts.
So what is a thug? Do I want my baby to be one? Forget that, do I want to be one of the "roving bandits who rob women in Hindu temples" (Urban Dictionary, thug 5)? No. My kind of thug is a warrior or a soldier put into the worst conditions imaginable and (is) still able to survive against all odds" (Urban Dictionary, thug 4).
References and Works Cited:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Research Project
1. Start thinking about your research topic: Think about a person who is an artist and a social entrepreneur. Think about the origins of hip hop culture. What gave rise to the music in the South Bronx? Think about the role of music as score to revolutionary struggle. Is hip hop another aspect of this genre: the freedom songs of the Civil Rights Movement, the coded messages in Negro Spirituals, the chants and field hollers on the plantations? What about the link to reggae music--another type of protest music?
2. You could chose pivotal songs and poetry, even films in Tupac's canon and show how the work marked significant and measurable changes in the young man's life.
3. You could also trace themes in his music and draw parallels between what he wrote and how he lived. What about the 2-ness of 2Pac the Gemini and the namesake of an Incan warrior?
4. Is hip hop dead? Why have many artists written its postmortem?
5. Compare Tupac to some of his peers who are still around, imagine what he'd be up to now?
6. Look at the legacy of "nommo" or the notion of "word as flesh" in the African tradition transported to America in the form of "tellin' lies and signifying." How is rap an extension of this oral tradition? (Look at old footage of musicians like Cab Calloway and others.)
7. KRS One says that Hip Hop is a nation. He said it was the first bloodless coup. Talk about hip hop around the globe and how this movement has left no culture untouched. Is this a good thing and if so, for whom?
We wrote a introduction to an essay on the word "thug." It's a definition essay obviously, but it is also an argument. I chose this word for the scholarship Dyson devotes to it in Chapter 3, There is No Malcolm X in My Textbook. (There is no Malcolm X in this chapter either.)
Students were to look at their hip hop lexicon and choose a word to analyze in an introductory paragraph. You don't have to type it. Bring the introduction into class tomorrow.
The following is an example using the word: Thug. I revised the sentence I jotted down on the board. Oh, the quotes come from the first seven entries in http://www.urbandictionary.com/
"Come into my world and you can see that we iz more then thugs/With just a little twist of harmony we smokin' warriors." Bone thugs
Thug is a word that describes a lifestyle which is both sacred and profane. Popularized by hip hop icon Tupac Shakur, the rap artist epitomized T.H.U.G. life, "an acronym coined by Flesh-n-Bone of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, that stands for 'Trues Humbly United Gathering Souls'" (Urban Dictionary.com). Tupac had the term tattooed on his stomach (ouch!) and when he was killed old ladies like Nikki Giovanni, poet and faculty at Virginia Tech, tattooed the term on their shoulders or arms. It became an even larger fraternity of sorts.
So what is a thug? Do I want my baby to be one? Forget that, do I want to be one of the "roving bandits who rob women in Hindu temples" (Urban Dictionary, thug 5)? No. My kind of thug is a warrior or a soldier put into the worst conditions imaginable and (is) still able to survive against all odds" (Urban Dictionary, thug 4).
References and Works Cited:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Research Project
1. Start thinking about your research topic: Think about a person who is an artist and a social entrepreneur. Think about the origins of hip hop culture. What gave rise to the music in the South Bronx? Think about the role of music as score to revolutionary struggle. Is hip hop another aspect of this genre: the freedom songs of the Civil Rights Movement, the coded messages in Negro Spirituals, the chants and field hollers on the plantations? What about the link to reggae music--another type of protest music?
2. You could chose pivotal songs and poetry, even films in Tupac's canon and show how the work marked significant and measurable changes in the young man's life.
3. You could also trace themes in his music and draw parallels between what he wrote and how he lived. What about the 2-ness of 2Pac the Gemini and the namesake of an Incan warrior?
4. Is hip hop dead? Why have many artists written its postmortem?
5. Compare Tupac to some of his peers who are still around, imagine what he'd be up to now?
6. Look at the legacy of "nommo" or the notion of "word as flesh" in the African tradition transported to America in the form of "tellin' lies and signifying." How is rap an extension of this oral tradition? (Look at old footage of musicians like Cab Calloway and others.)
7. KRS One says that Hip Hop is a nation. He said it was the first bloodless coup. Talk about hip hop around the globe and how this movement has left no culture untouched. Is this a good thing and if so, for whom?
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