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Misconception is a false belief system; an erroneous cognitive construct that leads to a dysfunctional worldview and potentially destructive behavior. In possession of a misconception, a person develops a warped sense of identity and a distorted vision of reality. The media is especially brilliant at crafting stories that create misconceptions in the minds of the public and its consumer sheep, simply by creating a legend or a myth that influences consumer behavior and social norms.
Music can be a media tool to create the misconceptions that shape American social norms and consumer behavior. Most music has the potential to uplift, inspire, and enliven our community; yet some forms of music are having the exact opposite effect, and that negative impact is felt most by young and impressionable consumers. The negative impact can be referred to as misconception. With regards to music, the wrong types of music can leave deep and lasting negative impressions on the listener that create a culture in which violence is normative. In "Go Brooklyn!" journalist Monique Ferrell exposes the dark underbelly of media and communications in America. Ferrell shows how the media make mythological creatures out of ordinary human beings to create superstars. In so doing, the media also manufactures cultural identity, personal identity, and social norms. Because rappers are role models, transformed into heroes by Big Media, it is critical that media take responsibility for exposing the truth rather than perpetuating misconceptions related to culture, gender, social responsibility.
"Gangsta rap" music also has the potential to create misconceptions about gender norms and gender roles. Misconceptions contained in rap music include that of the male as needing to kill in order to prove his prowess; and the female as being a willing sex slave or a moneygrubber. In "Go Brooklyn!" Ferrell points out the "cliche" that is the gangsta in rap music songs comes with a cadre of sexy ladies. The author also becomes furious when she notices that the two big shot female lawyers in the firm she profiles at the beginning of "Go Brooklyn" are themselves manufactured identities based on misconceptions of the real source of personal and…
Rap Music - a Soundtrack of Revolution Soundtrack of Revolution for the Generations of Rap Artists Since 1980s Hip hop is a culture that encompasses a vast corporation of artistic forms, which originated from marginalized subcultures within the South Bronx in New York City during the 1970s. This culture encloses four distinct elements, representing diverse manifestations of its founding reasons: the rap music (oral), disc jockey (turntablism), graffiti art (visual), and break-dancing
This is to say that where a piece of popular culture may lack the capacity to alter -- whether through paradigm shift, revolution or evolution -- the greater consciousness of the culture in which it has been produced and proliferated, it is likely to receive the disregard of cultural critics. And in a manner, there are concrete historical ways in which we can trace the line of distinction. In the
(Hip-hop History) Graffiti is also known as writing, and is not dance. It originated as an underground urban art which was boldly being displayed in public places, generally on the sides of buildings or walls. This was an avenue for citizens to make political and social commentary, and even for gangs to mark their territory. Folks would mark their areas with "tags" like FRANK 207, TAKI 183 and several
Hip Hop Culture The History of Hip Hop Culture The roots of hip hop culture are in West African and African-American music (Armstrong, 1997; Hummell, 2002). The griots of West Africa are a group of traveling singers and poets, whose musical style is very similar to hip hop. The most important direct influence on the creation of hip hop music was the Jamaican style called dub, which arose in the 1960's. Dub
The youth in these countries has become more than just obsessed with the physical appearances as plastic surgery is also becoming quite common. China probably has the greatest plastic surgery industry where they work at everything from increasing heights to improving complexions to match those that of the white Caucasian race. As in Singapore, which is "a global city" we find it being "at the forefront of consumerism of
Bob Dylan Annotated Bib Honneth, Axel. "Liberty's Entanglements: Bob Dylan and His Era." Philosophy Social Criticism. Sage Publications. 36:77. 2010. 777-783. Print. This article acts as a panegyric to Bob Dylan, describing him as representing "a hardly imaginable synthesis, combining the longings of a social romantic, the pride and arrogance of an individualist outsider, the derision of a satirist and the bitterness of an apocalyptic prophet" (777). Honneth then goes on to describe
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