{"id":11676,"date":"2024-02-14T20:22:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/african-american-and-african-diasporic-cultural-connections-work-sheet-applying-cultural-features-in-contemporary-rap-music\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T20:22:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:22:58","slug":"african-american-and-african-diasporic-cultural-connections-work-sheet-applying-cultural-features-in-contemporary-rap-music","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/african-american-and-african-diasporic-cultural-connections-work-sheet-applying-cultural-features-in-contemporary-rap-music\/","title":{"rendered":"African American and African Diasporic Cultural Connections Work Sheet: Applying cultural features in contemporary rap music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">OBJECTIVE:<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>How have<em style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><em style=\"cursor: auto;\"><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">African American rappers<\/u><\/em><\/strong><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><em style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/strong>maintained\/re-imagined verbal art forms and music sensibilities in the African American and African diasporic folk and music traditions?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\">1. Select a&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">rap<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">song<\/strong>&nbsp;released in the&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><em style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">last 5 years ( i.e., published from 1\/2019-1\/2024)<\/span>.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/em>Avoid R&amp;B, pop songs, and remastered songs<\/strong>. The emphasis is on rapping performances for this assignment.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Identify ANY three different African American oral traditions:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">toasting,&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">boasting,&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">ritual insults games<\/strong>, sometimes called&nbsp;<em style=\"cursor: auto;\">playing the dozens<\/em>,&nbsp;<em style=\"cursor: auto;\">joning<\/em>,&nbsp;<em style=\"cursor: auto;\">roasting<\/em>,&nbsp;<em style=\"cursor: auto;\">ribbing,&nbsp;<\/em>,<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">call-and-response technique<\/strong>\n<ol style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">option one:<\/strong>verbal art tradition (oratory with a caller-leader and respondents)<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">option two:<\/strong>musically (percussive\/instrumental pattern alternation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">girl-gaming&nbsp;<\/strong>\n<ol style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">option one:&nbsp;<\/strong>lyrics<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">option two:&nbsp;<\/strong>aural-oral-kinetic demonstrated in a video<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">2. should select a rap song that emphasizes rapping elements more so than R&amp;B- or pop-singing styles. To complete the assignment,&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">you might have to use more than one song and more than one artist<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">(10 points each):<\/strong>&nbsp;Follow the model below these guidelines. Give song details and then select the specific lines in the lyrics that address the verbal art form in question. Explain your rationale in about 250 words (+\/- 10%). NOTE: if you use genius.com or some other website or source,&nbsp;<u style=\"cursor: auto;\">you must acknowledge<\/u><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>whomever you are paraphrasing. Therefore, include a Works Cited page.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">(5 points):<\/strong>&nbsp;Additionally, In a couple of sentences explain why it is important for consumers to know about these ancient folk forms and why it is important to recognize African Americans\u2019 cultural traditions with respect to \u201cchanging same.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">Below is &nbsp;A very generic example of ONE of the three required folk forms (YOURs will be a song released within the last 5 years)<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding-left: 40px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">First Choice: Toasting.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding-left: 40px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Song: \u201cTom Ford\u201d by<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Jay Z on<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><em style=\"cursor: auto;\">Magna Carta Holy Grail<\/em>&nbsp;(2013)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding-left: 40px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Rationale [~250 words]:&nbsp;<\/strong>The song is not a toast in the older folk tradition, but I argue it has elements of the toasting tradition that celebrates a character, in this case, a baadwoman, who, according to the glossary of our textbook (Orejuela 2022: 231), has \u201coutlaw\u201d characteristics and overcomes obstacles faced as a Black woman than many of us do not experience. The song\u2019s title suggests that it is a song about the high-end fashion designer Tom Ford, and it is in minor ways, however, the piece can also be read as a celebration of all the baad folks coming out of Houston, Texas including his wife Beyonc\u00e9 and her family and even Tom Ford who live there as a boy: \u201cRiding clean fix your hair in my Crown\/ Bad Bitch H town.\u201d In this line, Jaz Z is complimenting his wife Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s prowess as a baadwoman and a queen. He follows, \u201cKeep it trill,\u201d referring to Beyonc\u00e9 as \u201cThird Ward Trill\u201d and playing with the idea of \u201cKeeping it real\u201d but also that Third Ward in Houston is a historically Black neighborhood and essential to the Civil Rights Movement in the Houston (Third Ward Initiative 2022)]\u201d. Like toasting narratives, &#8220;baad&#8221; is not meant as a pejorative term\u2014quite the opposite. Baad men and Baad women are the heroes of toasting narratives. Like Shine, who was able to survive the sinking of the Titanic and swim to NYC, or Annie Christmas, who was fiercer than the toughest men she worked alongside and still sexually alluring, Beyonc\u00e9 deserves to be celebrated for her greatness as a Black-woman-centered musician and equally impressive self-titled 2013 album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding-left: 40px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">WORKS CITED<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding-left: 40px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Jay Z. \u201cTom Ford.\u201d *Genius*. Genius Media Inc. Web. 10 February 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding-left: 40px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Orejuela, F. 2022. \u201cGlossary: baadman\/baadwoman\u201d in<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"cursor: auto;\">Rap and Hip Hop Culture.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/em>New York: Oxford University Press. 231.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding-left: 40px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Third Ward Initiatice. 2022. &#8220;Third Ward.&#8221; &nbsp;<a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">https:\/\/uh.edu\/third-ward\/third-ward-map\/<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px; cursor: auto;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding-left: 40px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px; cursor: auto;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Students, follow the example above for your 2<sup style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto;\">nd<\/sup><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>folk form and 3<sup style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto;\">rd<\/sup><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>folk form.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;a Worksheet is attached for this. Just fill it in<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OBJECTIVE:&nbsp;How have&nbsp;African American rappers&nbsp;maintained\/re-imagined verbal art forms and music sensibilities in the African American and African diasporic folk and music traditions? &nbsp; 1. Select a&nbsp;rap&nbsp;song&nbsp;released in the&nbsp;last 5 years ( i.e., published from 1\/2019-1\/2024).&nbsp;Avoid R&amp;B, pop songs, and remastered songs. 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