... said something smooth or cool to your girlfriend or guy friend you probably heard it in a love song or rap song. We often take for granted the fact that music is all around us no matter what kind you listen to. You listen to music in your car, in the mall while you are shopping, in the shower, on television and at parties ... sort of dialect called Ebonics, All this from a movement of music started by African American cultures twenty or thirty years ago. Music and life run parallel, music affects my life in many ways. My mood depicts my music, if you catch my drift. When I was younger I...

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A man walked up to me the other day and said, "Hey bro", you listen to rap music?" I replied with a yes; the man then tried to sell me his CD, but being the broke college student I am I had no cash on me. Once I told him this he replied ... be labeled as Ebonics have a huge impact on popular culture. This is because lots of those words are used in rap and hip-hop music which a lot of people listen to. So they start to use what they hear in the music, this is called convergence. Many words have been introduced to me that have had an impact on my language usage. Words ... ...

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... great example of white participation in hip-hop. The song itself takes a country rap approach that is so different from all of other country music, but the lyrics are conveyed so well behind the speed and tempo of hip-hop music. I truly think that if the song had been sung any other way it ... participation. I believe that the song as participation in hip-hop is using the cultures need for change in its favor. People everywhere love country music, but this song exposed people of genre that would infatuate thousands of people. The energetic and brisk nature behind a hip-hop song keeps som...

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... be retold, many changes had to be made so that it could be adopted into modern culture, such as the most noticeable change of involving rap music as supposed to the original classical form. Since rap is already a commercial sensation, MTV capitalized on its popularity by converting the entire Carmen story into the hip-hop genre, dubbing it Carmen : ... , as well as being just as seductive and sexual as the gypsies were. Along with the society that the story has been transposed to, the music must also be fit the change. Classical Opera at the time was the most popular form of musical, an...

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... -1970, popular culture started to influence people all around the world. People of all ages and cultures started to follow the trend. Television and music were the major attractions in the old popular culture. Elvis, Jonnie Cash, The Beetles, and the Rolling Stone. These were the main influential ... groups of people from the fifties to the seventies. Elton John came with his light rock music that captivated the world. In the late seventies, Michael Jackson and his moon walk. In the early eighties, the murder of John Lennon came ... as a shock to the music world, the disco era ended. Th...

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... extremely unpredictable. Certain themes, genres, sounds, styles, and stars strike a responsive chord, resonating with audience members" identities, emotions, opinions, tastes, and ambitions. The vast majority of television programs, rock and rap music, novels, computer software, and all other cultural offerings, however, fail to turn a profit. The role of the culture industries, therefore, is to solicit, select, sort, market, and distribute certain symbolic ... ...

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... as well. He uses lots of references to concrete, specific examples such as slaves making their master's waste into a tasty meal (368) or creating the roots of so much popular music today in the plantation fields (368) or even introducing " bass to 20th-century American culture" (369). This helps the reader understand now what cool is actually meant to be because ... African American culture until now? It's a bit hard to imagine someone with a larger world-view to agree that cool is necessarily a slave song that is now the basis of a popular rap song. Alexander's point on cool as describ...

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