MUSC 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Wonder Mike, Dj Kool, Dj Kool Herc
25 Apr 2016
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Mtv helped popularize rap: watched by suburbians, who were thought to be hostile towards rap. Rap artists projected :volatile messages via mass cultural products . Vicious put downs of women, homoseuxals, blacks, and japanses . Axl rose of guns n roses uses niggers in his song. Ethnic stereotyping runs deep in american popular culture. It shows a new acceptance, a license to say derogatory things about other people. People making these statements are being real and not covering anything up . Rock has a tradition of embracing (or exploiting) the contributions of racial ad sexual outsiders. Axl rose: believes that :racial epithets represent artistic freedom (song: one in a. Racist and sexist statements are a byproduct of societal tensions, and they belong well within constitutionally defined free speech . There"s a big diff between guns n roses vs. public enemy: the rap group"s overall message is one of self-determination for blacks.
