CUL233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hip Hop, Urban Decay, Jim Crow Laws
21 Aug 2018
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Is graffiti a tactic: no corporate or monetary backing, fleeting victory, tactics are used by subjects who cannot count as proper" . They subject but cannot overturn dominant relations of power: not supported by law or local council. Only temporarily resists social hierarchies and police etc. Captures the transformation of particular walls by artists: instead of viewing them as urban decay and vandalism, viewed them as art galleries. Rosa parks: why does this relate to formation of hip-hop graffiti, despite signif. gains, many african americans saw that crm had failed to change much, fuelled discontent which underpinned the birth of hiphop and hiphop graffiti. Born in 1970s in the us in black afro-american communities: emerged out of resistance of african civil rights movement in years preceding 1970s, culture of dispossessed. G. used continually to mark identity and resist. Miley cyrus forgetting history: black cultural forms of expression are packaged up for white audience white.
