Hate Language in Rap Music In a recent survey of Americans, 75% reported believing that exposure to violence in popular music, television shows, and movies, inspires young people to act aggressively (Lacayo, 1995; Smith et al., 2000). The consumption of media containing heterosex...

Name: Justin Brown Date: March 17th 2002 Course Section: The History of Rap Music Specific purpose: To inform my audience on the history of rap music. Thesis: Hip Hop has become like WWF Wrestling. Central idea: I want my audience to know and understand the roots of rap music Introductio...

Disputing Affairs In The Public Eye An entertainer is one who is out to present themselves in order to be known and to fulfill their intended purpose. The life chosen consists of endless surroundings of viewers and the constant admirations received by fans. All entertainers set out the goal of...

The music industry is an industry that is making billions of dollars a year. This is largely due to the impact of pop culture on music. Nowadays there are many different types of media that exemplify pop culture. Pop culture is marketed directly to American youth through the medium of large net...

Popular music at the moment, reaches many of us through the medium of music videos. There are various types of video channels, such as MTV, VH1, The Box, etc. These video channels now have off-shoot (subsidiary) channels such as; MTV2, MTVBase, VH2, etc. These music video channels exhibit specific m...

Rock music and the word "dangerous" have been known to be used in the same sentence together; is it dangerous because of the lyrics or is it just dangerous to our hearing? Rock music has been around since the fifties, so has the last 40 years created dangerous people causing violence and mayhem or ...

Hip-Hop:The Marketing of a New CultureByVictoria HershEnglish 110Professor Vericker1 May 2000Hersh iOutlineThesis: Hip-Hop's has lost its original goal of wanting to unite people, today it's a way to market violence.I. Hip-Hop started in the west Bronx in the early 1970s.A. Hip-Hop wasn't excepted m...

Rock music was decaying in the late 80's. The rock scene was suffering from a repetetive pattern of big hair, flashy clothes, long guitar solos, and lyrics that weren't relating to the listeners. The music industry was begging for something new. This is the beat up state that rock was ...

Why Media makes Teenagers so Materialistic Materialism can be defined as primarily focusing on tangible items over spiritual or intellectual values. Although many people in America live this way, I feel as if a concentration on things rather than people is a meaningless way to exist. Since many pe...