Select a news article or opinion piece related to hip-hop culture and the Covid-19 lockdown and/or political protest and transformation. Have you come across news features or analysis that indicate where the live music industry and hip-hop might be headed? In what ways has hip-hop transformed as a musical, cultural, and/or political voice in the […]
Spotlight Hip-hop culture unquestionably has a rich history of sampling and interpolation. Hip-hop producers have sampled from and covered the majority of musical genres. Within hip-hop itself, artists even sample and interpolate other hip-hop tracks. Your task in this first “Sampling and Interpolation Spotlight” will be to think critically about sampling and interpolation as creative […]
View the entire documentary, and after you have finished, post a reflection on two specific themes or performances in the documentary that struck you the most. Each reflection should be a full paragraph (12 point font, 400-500 word total for the assignment). As you are writing, explain to us why you think those moments were […]
