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Post #7: Assigned Oct. 28, 2010 Look at readings for hip-hop AND country. Where do you see similarities and/or connections between these two music genres? What do they have in common? Where are they fundamentally different?
Before i started this i had to do some research on both country and hip hop to see were the genre of music came from.
- country music began in the 1920s in small town Tennessee. The 1920s was a hard time for Americans, Prohibition had begun and the great depression loomed among both the common folk and the rich. When people began to lose everything they had, and could not legally attain alcohol to drink away their sorrow, Honky-tonk country music was born.
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-Rap has been on the entertainment circuit long before the advent of Mystical and Nelly. In the past, African Americans would use words to tell stories and would take turns adding verbs and sounds to make them more vibrant. Much like today's rap world, music was an outlet, a way to forget the hardships being placed upon the slaves and express themselves. In the 1970's Clive "Hercules" Campbell began to mix music and experiment with throwing rhymes into the mix. This sparked an "intercultural phenomena", as this new form of music appealed to everyone (History of Rap and Hip hop) .
I think they arent much different at all. Country talks about all the same messages hip hop songs do, for every sappy saad country song i could find one hip hop song with the same message. Now my country library is very small but i know there has to be violent country out there. Both forms of music were a form of escape during thier times. Both involve illegal narcotics use in the begining, Hillbtillies with thier moonshine and Rastafarians with thier Ganja. Both can do positive things towords society. Both have thier sellouts, thier pioneers, their ruff times and their radio spots. The big difference I see between country and hip hop is usually the fans. When you go to hip hop concerts and you see a little girl about to get trampled you see everyone helping her get the hell outa thier before she gets hurt, but country concerts are air packaged tight with teenage girls, probably somthing you wouldnt find at a hip hop concert.
Before i started this i had to do some research on both country and hip hop to see were the genre of music came from.
- country music began in the 1920s in small town Tennessee. The 1920s was a hard time for Americans, Prohibition had begun and the great depression loomed among both the common folk and the rich. When people began to lose everything they had, and could not legally attain alcohol to drink away their sorrow, Honky-tonk country music was born.
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-Rap has been on the entertainment circuit long before the advent of Mystical and Nelly. In the past, African Americans would use words to tell stories and would take turns adding verbs and sounds to make them more vibrant. Much like today's rap world, music was an outlet, a way to forget the hardships being placed upon the slaves and express themselves. In the 1970's Clive "Hercules" Campbell began to mix music and experiment with throwing rhymes into the mix. This sparked an "intercultural phenomena", as this new form of music appealed to everyone (History of Rap and Hip hop) .
I think they arent much different at all. Country talks about all the same messages hip hop songs do, for every sappy saad country song i could find one hip hop song with the same message. Now my country library is very small but i know there has to be violent country out there. Both forms of music were a form of escape during thier times. Both involve illegal narcotics use in the begining, Hillbtillies with thier moonshine and Rastafarians with thier Ganja. Both can do positive things towords society. Both have thier sellouts, thier pioneers, their ruff times and their radio spots. The big difference I see between country and hip hop is usually the fans. When you go to hip hop concerts and you see a little girl about to get trampled you see everyone helping her get the hell outa thier before she gets hurt, but country concerts are air packaged tight with teenage girls, probably somthing you wouldnt find at a hip hop concert.
I like your comparison between rap and country. Rap is about the lifestyle of people in an urban setting, and country is about the lifestyle of people in a southern setting. Both of them really reach out to their fans with lyrics about real life.
ReplyDeleteThey both have strong stereotypes associated with them, as well. Sometimes those stereotypes work against the artists, and sometimes they're useful.
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