Understanding Popular Culture through Hip Hop

Running head: UNDERSTANDING POP CULTURE THROUGH HIP HOP 1
Understanding Popular Culture through Hip Hop
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Understanding Popular Culture through Hip Hop
Part 1: Hip Hop Artefact
Hip Hop as an artifact is a form of culture and musical expression and originated from
Africa-American especially the Latino communities living in New York City in early 1970’s
(Alim, 2009). In this work am going discus Hip Hop music as an artifact of my choice. I selected
hip hop due to the popularity of my culture. I am going to analyze Hip Hop music in the lenses
of social sciences, natural sciences, humanities and history.
Hip Hop music and social sciences
Human beings are social beings. This means people were made to live together in a
communal and social way. Social Science is the study of society and the relationships among
people. The study focuses on how people live and ways to improve their living. Scientist use this
lens by collecting primary and secondary data, analyzing it and making conclusions on the
finding after the project on the ways to improve the society. Hip Hop Music origin was based on
a mixed culture (Rose, 2014). Slavery made some African find themselves in America. In earlier
days Africans were really discriminated by American. Hip Hop came as a means for this
different cultures to express themselves. Music expresses feelings and emotions that a person
won’t speak, it’s the deep soul speaking. Hip Hop music made a bridge and a communication
channel in which the different cultures could interact and this made the society better. The
choice, attitudes and the behaviors of the people towards one another changed significantly with
one another (Bennett, 2009). Careers in sociology, psychology, sociology and more propagated
the need for a better society. Hip Hop Music through this lens is seen to make a better society.
The theoretical frame work that I will employ is dance. This is because, due to many
occasions in my humanitarian culture involves dance. Hip hop has one of the best dances which
expressed people feeling. Through the lenses of social science, hip hop provides a social
commentary by giving people and understanding of sound human relations. Human beings are
social beings naturally. Hip hop music carries a lot to be learned in terms of human interactions.
The feeling expressed by hip hopers gives a society or community with different people a human
and hind way of dealing with one another. Social relationships are highly strengthened through
the artifact of hip hop music (Alim, 2009). In my theoretical framework I will construct my
reading by using literature. Through literature I will gather many hip hop songs and analyze the
wording critically to get a lot of which they are saying in terms of social sciences. Literature will
be a wealthy way of expressing social science to my society.

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