... U.S., only shows how rarely such a thing happens. That changed in the 1980's with the advent of MTV, a station devoted to playing music videos. In the early days of MTV the station was desperate to fill airtime, and they played music videos from a wide-ranging selection of groups and artists (Banks, 1997). It was not uncommon to see a Michael Jackson video followed by ... drive many changes in popular culture; perhaps the most significant of these were the newfound popularity of rap and hip-hop music (Banks, 1997). Rap music was hardly a widely popular form prior to MTV, yet rap and hip...

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... leaving politicians scrambling for a scapegoat. What the politicians found was the entertainment industry: violent movies, the Internet, videogames, and, of course, Rock Music. A poll taken after the incident showed that 80% of Americans felt that the Internet bore some of the responsibility, and that 46% though it ... of such behavior, but musical whitewashing has led to convenient memory lapses when it comes to such unflattering details."" (Nuzum 140). Drug-influenced music is not what bothers most anti-rock crusaders, though. They primarily target the lyrics, often times disregarding ...

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... capitalize on the comic banter between the new immigrant Sammo, ignorant of black and white American culture, and Tyrell, the streetwise African American police officer who introduces Sammo to rap and Reggae music. Given the loyal following of Hong Kong martial arts films by many African American viewers, the pairing of an Asian and African American performer seemed to guarantee that audience ... get enough to eat, but his father requires him to read Charles Dickens's Great Expectations with Walt Whitman thrown in for a poetry diversion that his father promises is something like "rap.""...

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