Post your reflection on the essay here. Each response should be about 250 words minimally. These responses, which look at the key ideas explored as well as question premises and challenge the writers--you don't have to agree, can be the basis of any one of the research essays you are writing this semester. The reflection needs to incorporate citations from the article: paraphrase, one direct quote and one block quote. You will be graded on your grasp of key ideas, how well you incorporate the citation --signal phrases, as well as your facility with the genre, essay writing. is there a clearly stated thesis, how well is it supported and how sophisticated is the analysis. Go deep.
Don't forget to respond to each other and ask questions. I am still thinking about a midterm question. I'll let you know once I figure it out. M1 from Dead Prez is speaking at a variety of locations this week. I am hosting the discussion in San Jose this Sunday at 6. The schedule is posted below.
The response is due no later than a week after it is assigned and discussed in class.
Remember, for tomorrow two essays were assigned, one about dance the other about hip hop literature. If you plan to attend the conference at East Side this weekend, I'd encourage you to read the panel discussion with Traci Bartlow. She is hosting the conference Sept. 26.
We have a guest tomorrow morning.
M1 from Dead Prez is on a speaking tour this week. He was in Gaza, as in Palestine, with Cynthia McKinney, former Georgia Congresswoman and Green Party Presidential nominee. I plan to attend 9/24 and I will host 9/27.
Next week I might show a film about hip hop in Palestine and hip hop in Ghana. It's called HipLife there. The filmmaker, Eli Jacobs-Fantauzi is interviewed in Total Chaos. Ghana's first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's centennial birthday was Monday, Sept. 21.
East Oakland, Thursday, Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m., Wose Community Center, 8924 Holly St. – Minister of Information JR will interview M1
• San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 25, 7 p.m., POOR Magazine, Redstone Building, 2940 16th St. at Mission, Second Floor Theater – Richard Brown of the San Francisco 8 will interview M1
• West Oakland, Saturday, Sept. 26, 6 p.m., Black Dot Cafe, 1195 Pine St. – Nadra Foster, the 12-year volunteer KPFA broadcaster who was beaten by police inside the station, will interview M1
• San Jose, Sunday, Sept. 27, 6 p.m., DeBug Magazine, 701 Lenzen Ave. – Bay View Arts Editor Wanda Sabir will interview M1
• Santa Cruz, Monday, Sept. 28, 7 p.m., Barrios Unidos, 1817 Soquel Ave.
• Sonoma, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m., Multi-Purpose Room, Student Union Building, Sonoma State University
October is also Black Panther Awareness Month. Visit www.itsabouttimebpp.net for the schedule which includes: art exhibits, panel discussions on topics such as Women in the BPP, a Job/Book Fair, and a film festival. Most of these events are free.
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Itzel Diaz
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Got Next, A Round table on identity and aesthetics after Multiculturism is a discussion between: Greg Tate, “a staff writer at the Village of Voice” (34); Mark Anthony Neal, “associate professor of Black Popular culture in the program of African American Studies at Duke University” (34); Vijay Prashad, “the director of international studies at Trinity College” (34); and Brian “B+” Cross, hop-hop photographer. During the round table the different panelist have the opportunity to discuss the relation between hip-hop and government, the difference between underground hip-hop and corporate hip-hop, the relationship of hip-hop and the civil rights movement, and multiculturism in hip-hop.
Panelist discuss the lost of multiculturism in hip-hop; they talked about how the lost of multiculturism in hip-hop would be fatal to it. Hip-hop would loose the voice that gives all different cultures a way to express themselves through out music. According to Vijay:
Multiculturism was an ideology from above. It was about the institutional management of diversity, and it decided not to engage with the principal feature of the antisubordination movements, the antiracist movement which fought white supremacy and power. (37)
Multiculturism in Hip-hop brings people together by celebrating culture and engaging the diversity that enriches Hip-hop’s expression.
The difference between underground Hip-hop and Corporate Hip-hop was another topic that gives panelist a lot to talk about; B+, Mark and Greg discuss how corporate America have limited, stereotype, and even killed Hip-hop. The difference between underground Hip-hop and corporate Hip-hop, is that underground Hip-hop does express the true feeling and emotions of the artist on its whole extension, but corporate Hip-hop is limit to express what the media implies artist are supposed to express.
Citations:
Cross, Brian. Neal, Mark Anthony. Prashad, Vijay. Tatie, Greg. “Got Next” the Art and
Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. Ed. Jeff Chang. Basic Civitas Books, 2006. 33-51
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