{"id":34377,"date":"2024-10-07T19:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T19:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/title-us-vs-them-how-a-sense-of-community-is-constructed-in-african-hiphop-and-rb-soul-protest-music\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T19:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T19:27:04","slug":"title-us-vs-them-how-a-sense-of-community-is-constructed-in-african-hiphop-and-rb-soul-protest-music","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/title-us-vs-them-how-a-sense-of-community-is-constructed-in-african-hiphop-and-rb-soul-protest-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Title: \u201cUs vs. Them\u201d \u201cHow a sense of community is constructed in African HipHop and R&B\/Soul protest music\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title:<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cUs vs. Them\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cHow a sense of community is constructed in African HipHop and R&B\/Soul protest music\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

How do black artists use the `Us` narrative in <\/span>BLM<\/b> <\/span>protest music to contribute to fostering an African American identity?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Tricia Rose\u2019s “Black Noise” (1994)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Mark Anthony Neal\u2019s “Songs in the Key of Black Life” (2003)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Bell Hooks\u2019 “We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity” (2004)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

How is it constructed?<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking at three different categories: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

–       <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Black bodies (3 songs)<\/span><\/p>\n

–       <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Black history (3 songs)<\/span><\/p>\n

–       <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Spaces and places (3 songs)<\/span><\/p>\n

And contributing to the we identity to create a sense of community?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Analyzing on the multidimensional basis of <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

–       <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Lyrics<\/span><\/p>\n

–       <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Visuals\/ Performance<\/span><\/p>\n

–       <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Music\/ melody<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

BLMM \u2013 Black artists (who is performing, what body are we listening\/looking at?) \u2013 HipHop and R&B music (black genre, foundation of that genre etc.) \u2013 songs great to construct identity and for protest \u2013 lyrics (what? Symbols, metaphors etc.) \u2013 visuals\/ performance (pictures, colors, videos etc.) \u2013 music\/ melody <\/span><\/span>\uf0e0<\/span><\/span> <\/span>define (chapter)<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

songs: <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

R&B \/ soul: <\/span><\/span><\/b>not all of them will be included \u2013 just six of them will be used!<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Say it loud \u2013 I\u00b4m black and I\u00b4m proud<\/span><\/i>– James Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Stranger Fruit <\/span><\/span><\/i>– Nina Simone<\/span><\/p>\n

Mississippi Goddamn<\/span><\/i>– Nina Simone<\/span><\/p>\n

A change is gonna come <\/span><\/span><\/i>– Sam Cooke<\/span><\/p>\n

Black rage<\/span><\/i>– Lauryn Hill<\/span><\/p>\n

Sweeter<\/span><\/i>– Leon Bridges<\/span><\/p>\n

Wake up Everybody<\/span><\/i>– Harold Melvin & The blue Notes<\/span><\/p>\n

Inner city Blues<\/span><\/i> <\/span>– Marvin Gaye<\/span><\/p>\n

Baltimore<\/span><\/i> <\/span>– <\/span><\/span>Prince<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HipHop:<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Changes<\/span><\/i>, Tupac<\/span><\/p>\n

Fight the power<\/span><\/i>– Public Enemy<\/span><\/p>\n

the revolution will not be televised<\/span><\/i>– Gil Scott-Heron<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title: \u201cUs vs. Them\u201d   \u201cHow a sense of community is constructed in African HipHop and R&B\/Soul protest music\u201d   How do black artists use the `Us` narrative in BLM protest music to contribute to fostering an African American identity?   Tricia Rose\u2019s “Black Noise” (1994) Mark Anthony Neal\u2019s “Songs in the Key of Black Life” (2003) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[77],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=34377"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=34377"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=34377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}