Thursday, December 18, 2008

Journal Entry # 9 Hip Hop Matters

5 Comments:
  • A college professor wanted there to be a course so that students could learn how to make Hip Hop.
  • Many people think Hip Hop is street music and it contains no intelligence.
  • Berklee is the best college of music int he entire world.
  • Rappist were really scholars, who experience a different method of learning.
  • Hip Hop had to make a purpose in the world.

4 Questions:

  • Why were the student shocked that their professor wanted a Hip Hop course?
  • Does the Death Row Records stand for something bad?
  • How did their intelligence relate to Hip Hop's ghetto tenches?
  • How do people take Berklee college for granted?

3 Words:

  • Turntablism (pg. 229): Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ Mixer.
  • Tutmultuous: (pg. 238): full of tumult or riotousness
  • Intelligentsia (pg. 247): intellectuals considered as a group or class

2 Literary Terms:

  • Metaphor (pg. 234) "Many of Hip Hop's 'best and brightest' belie the tradional definition"
  • Pun (pg. 239) " Single parent household drove him to the streets"

1 Sentence Summary

  • Many people Hip Hop isn't formed from intelligence, but it really is all about experienced learning.


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