On Wednesday and Thursday of July 14th and 15th the Music in Multicultrural America class gave presentations on topics of their choosing to illustrate the diversity of music in this country stemming from the cultures of those around the world and the originality of our own music and cultures here in...

Don't Knock the Rap: A Response to Venise Berrry's "Redeeming the Rap Music Experience" Rap music has been getting a bad rap from parents, legislators, and other authority figures ever since it first hit the American pop music scene in the early 1980's. Adults ...

Rap is a style of popular music with a pronounced beat. Techno is a style of popular music using electric equipment and synthesized repetitive sounds. Which is better? This essay is about the differences between the two and what type of music people listen to. Also how each one is acknowledged in so...

The goodness of Hip Hop has been a question in today's society for quite some time. Some say that it causes negative and positive actions to occur due to the graphic natural and sexual reference displayed in its lyrics. Others would argue that Hip Hop places a "matrix" (Britton, &q...