AFRI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tricia Rose, Characters In The Thursday Next Series, Beatboxing
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African hip hop and poliics of change in an era of rapid globalizaion. The young: africa is a young coninent under 30. Media/ modernity(quality of being modern or up to date) Generaional- generaions in conlict, re: the dumbest generaion . Four elements of hiphop ( black noise via tricia rose) Mcing (rapping or chaning rhyming lyrics by strong rhythm) Beat-boxing (producion of drumbeats, rhythm, musical sounds using mouths, lips, toung and voice) Graii art (wednesday next week critical response paper 750 words) Increased globalizaion or global low or processes- technologies of sound and visual narraives from the media and african american stars. Domesicaion or indigenizaion of an imported western popular cultural phenomenon and the creaion of new dancehall music in local language and dance forms- azonto, shhoki etc. Gidigidi majimaji"s naional anthem kenya, who can bwogo. Without a doubt hip hop is one of the fasts growing and most widespread youth culture phenomenon in africa .