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samleetv |
Hip Hop Intelligence
Feb 20 2009, 6:05 PM EST
Hip Hop music and culture have the capacity to stimulate the imagination and emotion of listeners through empirical story telling. Secondly, Hip hop music and culture are to create a a public discourse when multiple experiences as well as multiple intelligence's are valued. And, the third most important strength is that Hip-Hop music and culture as a public, global sounding board for artists and fans to question universal attitudes about nationality, race, class and gender.
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kels239 |
1. RE: Hip Hop Intelligence
Mar 11 2009, 4:24 PM EDT
I agree with you completely. but how can we take this further- where we are not only using hip hop to create discourse, but also using hip-hop music and culture to informs social policy and interventions via community growth and mental health? How can hip-hop music, culture, activism and scholarship come together to model an alternative institution, one that doesn't play the 'game'(oppressive power structure), and in doing so, ends up promoting mental wellness and social reform & justice? As a Mental health professional and social science researcher in New York, I see hip-hip as a valuable tool for the promotion of empowerment at the individual and community level... but finding an alliance between social researchers, beat-boys ,MC's, scholars and community activists is, how I believe, we can start challenging both the systemic oppression and ourselves.
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samleetv |
2. RE: Hip Hop Intelligence
Mar 12 2009, 5:20 PM EDT
as it relates to the "Cultural Health of the Adolescent Community" hip hop is the only path of engagement that reaches pass all the crap they see and believe. I teach digital story telling at alternative hs and jhs, with a hip hop undercurrent. It works. as an element of popular culture, it can be utilized as a central theme in developing critical analysis in any classroom.....so what's on your mind
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kels239 |
3. RE: Hip Hop Intelligence
Mar 22 2009, 3:30 PM EDT
Again, I agree with you about the revolutionary promotion of community health and wellness by old school hip hop, MC & b boys from back in the -- pre hip-hop consumerism, if you will-- but my question is this: where are they now when hiphop needs their wisdom and mentorship the most? This is my biggest beef with the old school hip hop community. As a result of corporate imperialism, newschool hip hop appears to be having an identity crisis; it has become 'out of touch' with its roots, its authenticity, with its heritage and community. New School hip hop, young brothers and sisters, are misguided because they aren't being raised by its old-school mothers and father; new school hip hop is like bastard child being raised by corporate parternalism. The reporcussions of this are huge, when considering the historical reporcussion and impact of hiphop on the black and brown urban youth- in particular. With that said, the question becomes: How could Old School and New School work collaborativelty with one another and begin a healthy, conscious third wave, hip-hop communty? Do you find this valuable? |
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samleetv |
4. RE: Hip Hop Intelligence
Mar 22 2009, 6:59 PM EDT
well we can light a spark,...... any time arts mixes with corporate america, art and the cultural investors pay the highest price. Do not forget the old schoolers were beat down by life on life terms, no money, no respect and had to watch from the sidelines while someone raped their child. who ever controls the media owns the development of culture, but today with wiki's, youtube, etc. we can communicate and build without going thru someone trying to sell us things we do not need. we can use the todays tools which is at our fingertips to hip anyone who will listen. So the real question is what are we gonna do
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