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Thx Jason! “You have an interesting phenomenon, where the ‘hip-hop experts,’ with university appointments attached to their name, have no credibility whatsoever in hip-hop circles. That…is a source of tension.”
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Thx Tereza! “Britain’s opposition Conservative Party had a full- blown race scandal on its hands Thursday after one of its top members said that soldiers from ethnic minorities were “idle and useless” and used “racism as a cover for their misdemeanours.”"
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Thx Tereza! “Asked at a National Press Club event if a political future was in the cards, [Woods] did not rule it out, saying he has had experience “meeting influential people in the political arena” but does not know where his “future lies.”"
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Thx Tereza! “The ‘antiracist’ and, actually, ‘anti-American’ curriculum permeates the school environment…My children do not know Christopher Columbus, except that he was a racist who caused the death of many innocents”
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Thx Kyla! “Walgreen illegally sent black staff to low-performing stores and shops in black communities, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) claims.”
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Thx Tereza! “he has proposed the misnamed “Academic Bill of Rights”…would give legislators and university administrations a warrant to police faculty on the basis of “ideological neutrality.”…“merely a smokescreen for the McCarthyite agenda be
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Thx Tereza! “Canada’s use of the term “visible minorities” to identify people it considers susceptible to racial discrimination came under fire at the United Nations Wednesday – for being racist”
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“hip-hop culture becomes the scapegoat for everything that’s wrong…But as Michael Eric Dyson points out…the objectionable messages of the music (the misogyny, the homophobia, the violence) only mirror the attitudes of American society as a whole”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
kim wrote:
On:
Hip-Hop Studies, and Black Sheep and Scapegoat: starting with “the objectionable messages of the music (the misogyny, the homophobia, the violence) only mirror the attitudes of American society as a whole,” determine the focus one would take in the acadmic studies of hip-hop, and move on from there.
If one is going to study it from a sociological or anthropological standpoint, ask ‘in what ways are the behaviors, patterns, gestures, words, fashion aesthetics, expressing those found outside of Hip-Hop and given visibility in more traditionally accepted and recognized ways. And don’t think that one can do this from the next zip code over.
If one is going to celebrate the evolution and trajectory of Hip-Hop within the hearts and minds of the youth and culture, remember that one also cannot phone this one in.
Point being: anyone seeking to document and/or explore the artform as a living, breath culture of youth is going to have to come at it without the neck cocked sideways, and nostrils flared, the way one might entering a chicken cleaning processing plant. Go at it with your palms up, ready to touch.
Posted 10 Mar 2007 at 11:48 am ¶