Note on the homework
For the 11 a.m. class, we were not able to watch the film, so watch it tonight if you have time. More importantly, read Hurt's interview with Dyson. You can watch the film between Thursday and Monday. We are going to write the essay in class next week Tuesday.
For tomorrow, decide which area you'd like to focus on for your essay: 1. misogyny or violence against women, 2. violence, 3. hyper-masculinity, or 4. media. We will divide into interest areas. If you have a laptop, bring it.
We will meet in A-232 and C-113 tomorrow. Next week when we do the writing, we will meet A-232 on Monday-Tuesday to write the essay. You will have 50 minutes to write it, so plan well in advance. (I need to check these dates to make sure the room is clear).
For tomorrow, make sure you look at the website and materials that PBS has created for this director: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/classroom/resources/hip_hop-discussion.pdf
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/classroom/hiphop.html
If anyone missed class and didn't get a copy of the article/interview, I left copies outside my office, D-219 today.
For tomorrow, decide which area you'd like to focus on for your essay: 1. misogyny or violence against women, 2. violence, 3. hyper-masculinity, or 4. media. We will divide into interest areas. If you have a laptop, bring it.
We will meet in A-232 and C-113 tomorrow. Next week when we do the writing, we will meet A-232 on Monday-Tuesday to write the essay. You will have 50 minutes to write it, so plan well in advance. (I need to check these dates to make sure the room is clear).
For tomorrow, make sure you look at the website and materials that PBS has created for this director: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/classroom/resources/hip_hop-discussion.pdf
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/classroom/hiphop.html
The free-write post or first response is due by Monday before class.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 1:49 PM
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Emily Lam
Eric Mason
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50
2 October 2012
" Holler If You Hear Me " Paraphrase
Hip-hop culture has come a long way since its fledging start in the late 1970s. Early hip-hoppers were largely anonymous and could barely afford the sound systems on which the genre is built. By contrast, contemporary artists reap lucrative contracts, designer clothing lines, glossy magazine soreads, fashionable awarda, global recognition, and often the resentment of their hip-hop elders. If there is a hip-hop's purists, it is that they have squandered the franchise by being obsessed with shaking derrieres, platinum jewelry, fine alchohol, premium weed, pimp culture, gangster rituals, and thug life. Although hip-hop has succeeded far beyond the bronx of its birth, it has, in the minds of some ingenious storyteller whose haunting tales elevated and examined the poor-Charles Dickens-these are for hip-hop the best of times and the worst of times. In his embattled soul, Tupac embodied both.
Paraphrase:
Hip-Hop has progresssd since the 1970s. Early artists were hard to identify and they couldn't buy the equipment they needed. Many artists signed huge contracts, wore expensive clothes, were featured on magazines, won awards, was world renound, but didn't get respect from early artists. If you were to get the opinion of early artists, they would say todays artists have demeaned the art by boasting about jewelery, liquor, drugs, pimping and being a gangster. Today, hip-hop is being known by its early artists as a diminished art form. As Charles Dickens, very detailed author of the poor, once said, " these are for hip-hop, the best of times and the worst of times." Tupac of course, expressed the best and the worst of hip-hop.
Works cited:
Dyson, Eric Dyson. Holler If You Head Me. New York, NY: Basic Civitas, 2001
Jonas Sota
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50
September 8 2012
Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
In this documentary Bryson Hurt focuses on the hypermasculine attitude associated with Hip Hop culture. To gather evidence Hurt attended a Hip Hop festival in Florida where youthful fans of the genre appeared in the thousands. Hurt interviews multiple attendees and the camera was exposed to the tendency of youthful Hip Hop fans to celebrate violence. He then shows clips of Hip Hop icons saying things such as “gonna slap a bitch and a ho”, and when he interviews Hip Hop artists and asks them why they disrespect women in their music, the artists close-up and become almost unresponsive to Hurt. A lot of Hip Hop artists, when approached by this or similar questions, retract by saying that they aren’t the only Hip Hop artist producing violent or misogynist lyrics, and that Hip Hop isn’t the only source of such themes in American society. There is definitely a sense of an unwillingness to take responsibility or action for the promotion of hypermasculinity in American culture.
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