Depth Study: Popular Culture Hip Hop Hip Hop Society and Culture HSC Course
Popular Culture Must be associated with commercial products Must be constantly changing and evolving Popular Culture Must have developed from a local to a national to a global level Must be widely accessible
Hip Hop changing and evolving commercial products: Early funk influence - dance music -social commentary - gangsta rap - mainstream commercial products: CDs, DVDs, Fashion, Magazines, Movies, Video Games … Hip Hop local to a national to a global level * Sth Bronx, NY * USA * American Hip Hop is globalised + many national Hip Hop scenes (France, UK, Japan, Australia etc) widely accessible Hip Hop music and fashion is widely available in mainstream stores world-wide
Four Elements Break dancing DJing Graffiti art Rapping
Cultural Influences African African-American Hispanic Afro - Caribbean
Cultural Influences African Griots – African travelling poets/cultural story tellers. Influence early African-American music Sample sound clips
Cultural Influences Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade African-American
Cultural Influences Segregation – Jim Crow Laws 1860s – 1950s African-American
Cultural Influences African-American Civil Right Movement 1950s – 60s
Cultural Influences African-American Black Panthers 1960s – early 70s
Musical Influences Soul Funk
Musical Influences Soul James Brown – I Got You (I Feel Good) (1965
Musical Influences Soul James Brown – Sex Machine (Get Up) (1976)
Musical Influences Funk Parliament – Give Up the Funk (1975)
OLD SKOOL ERA The 1st Hip Hop DJs DJ Kool Herc Afrikaa Bambaataa
OLD SKOOL ERA The 1st Hip Hop DJs DJ Kool Herc
The 1st Hip Hop DJs Afrika Bambaataa – Planet Rock (1982) OLD SKOOL ERA The 1st Hip Hop DJs Afrika Bambaataa – Planet Rock (1982)
OLD SKOOL ERA The 1st MCs Sugarhill Gang Kurtis Blow Fatback Band
OLD SKOOL ERA The 1st MCs Sugarhill Gang – Rapper’s Delight (1979)
OLD SKOOL ERA The 1st MCs Kurtis Blow – The Breaks (1980)
OLD SKOOL ERA First Big Release
OLD SKOOL ERA First Big Release
OLD SKOOL ERA First Big Release
Golden Age Top of the Charts Run DMC - Walk this Way (1986)
Golden Age Top of the Charts
Golden Age Top of the Charts
Golden Age Political Hip Hop Public Enemy – Fight the Power (1989)
Golden Age Political Hip Hop BDP – Duck Down (1992)
Golden Age Political Hip Hop
Golden Age Political Hip Hop KRS One – Sound of da Police (1993)
Gangsta Rap Niggaz with Attitude – Straight Outta Compton (1988) Golden Age Gangsta Rap Niggaz with Attitude – Straight Outta Compton (1988)
Golden Age East Coast West Coast Tupac – Hit em up (1996)
Modern Era Tupac’s Other side Tupac – Keep ya Head up (1993)
Modern Era Post Tupac Eminem – My Name is (1999)
Modern Era Today… 50 Cent – In Da Club (2003)
Rick Rubin Russell Simmons Def Jam Joseph Simmons
Beliefs + Values Collectivist Individualist Black liberation Equality Public Enemy Collectivist Self-determination Freedom Grandmaster Flash Power Tupac Independance Ghetto NWA Bling Run DMC 50 Cent Hustling Violence Individualist Masculinity Criminality Mysogyny
Bigger than (Hip Hop) Dead Prez – Its Bigger than [hip-hop] (2000)