MUS 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cross Bronx Expressway, Afrika Bambaataa, Universal Zulu Nation
2 Feb 2016
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The building of new york"s cross bronx expressway divided many of the city"s ethnic neighbourhoods, destroying homes and jobs and displacing poor black and hispanic communities in brooklyn and the south. Inner-city neighbourhoods with mostly african-american, caribbean, and latino communities were plagued by poverty and community decay. Jeff chang: hip hop did not start as a political movement there was no manifesto. The kids who started it were simply trying to find ways to pass the time, they were trying to have fun. But they grew up under the politics of abandonment and because of this, their pastimes contained the seeds for a kind of mass cultural renewal o o. Individuals who collaborate for social reasons o: gangs give protection to members, gangs can give members status within that particular group (or community) Gang culture (street gangs): o o o o. Individual reputation is important, mainly because it reflects on the whole gang (group reputation)
