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| Article Title :: ‘Things Just Ain’t the Same’: Hip-Hop’s Reconstruction of the Gangster Rap Identity |
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| Gangster rap, or hardcore rap, is generally considered a sub genre of the larger category of rap music, which itself is a subcategory of hip-hop. Gangster rap is differentiable from other rap music in that it makes use of images of urban life associated with crime (Haugen, 2). According to the Encyclopedia Britannica definition of gangster rap, the top four images associated with the genre are violence, drugs, materialism and sexual promiscuity.
Gangster Rappers as Defining the Hip-Hop Social Group
As the hip-hop movement has gained recognition throughout the United States, it has established itself as one of the fastest growing social groups anywhere. In the late 1990s i (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: MagFool |
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| Article Title :: Want To Learn How To Play Guitar Easily And Effortlessly? |
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| The most important thing you must do when learning how to play guitar is practice! You're learning new things by doing the work, here, this is playing guitar, simple. By saying that, i mean playing guitar, not pulling the strings with no reason at all. And when you're practicing, there is one thing you should never do and that is you must never, ever do it in a rush, just take your time and the results will come.
The next important thing is you need to get organized while learning new stuff. You need to start at the beginning and start playing simple chords and stuff like that. When playing guitar, just remain as relaxed as possible, relieving the tension off. The tension in you (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Ryan Fyfe |
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| Article Title :: Thursday Rock |
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| Thursday, a post-hardcore band, is from New Brunswick, New Jersey. The band formed in 1997. Their first full-length album was released in 1999 with a New Jersey based company called indie Eyeball Records. Thursday is known for their notable advancements of artistic nature; many of the bands songs are as a result of books, real world events, and art of various forms. Successfully emerging from the underground indie scene, Thursday at the turn of the century attracted Victory Records attentios.
The band gained significant commercial radio airtime when they released their second album which became a breakthrough. Their hit single "Understanding In A Car Crash", landed the band a m (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: David Wright |
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| Article Title :: How To Succeed In The Music Business. Part 1 |
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| So you wanna be a star?
Part 1
So, you’ve made the decision! You’ve finished recording your album and it’s the “best” - it deserves to be heard by the world and you’re deserving of the adulation afforded to the creation of such a masterpiece! Of course, you know in your own mind that it won’t be easy to become a star. After all, everyone says that the music business is difficult’. But hey, you’ve got what it takes, you’ve got talent, and this really is a great album - all your friends and family agree - so what can possibly stop you? What indeed...?
Few people outside of the Music Business have any idea just how diffi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Tom Hess |
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| Article Title :: Top Secrets of Common Sense ~ Part 1 |
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| If you believe you can, you will. If you believe you canÂ’t, you wonÂ’t.
No matter what your musical skill level is right now, there are going to be many significant challenges ahead of you. Your attitudes, and the ways you deal with musical challenges, will be single greatest factor in determining how much you will achieve as a musician. If you believe that you can, and will, overcome your greatest challenges, you will find a way, or you will seek help from a teacher, trainer, coach or mentor that will help you through it. If you donÂ’t believe you can achieve, your done, itÂ’s over, because you wonÂ’t.
A true story of self-fulfilling prophecy (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Wendy Yeager |
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| Article Title :: Music of the 70s |
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| We all associate songs and music with events in our life. Many songs hold special memories for us. We fondly remember the songs that were playing when we went to our first dance, the songs the school band attempted to play during half time at the high school football games, the songs that we heard on our first date, or the songs we heard on the radio while driving our first car.
The music of the 1970Â’s is probably the most impressive and most recognized of any era. The artists of the 1970Â’s provided us with numerous songs we loved to dance to and sing along with. At that time most bands actually played their own instruments and didnÂ’t need to sequence part of it. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Charles Cruz |
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| Article Title :: The Absolute Worst Way To Download Music On The Internet |
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| You get into the online music world. You've had this song playing in the back of your mind all day and now you've decided that you want to download it. You search for it specifically and find that there's a site that is offering you exactly the song you want for free.
All you had to do is give them your email. You download it. The next thing you know you have a pop up coming out every time you open your browser window.
You failed to notice all the signs that told you this was going to happen. The banners, the smiley ads, the popups, you just thought you could download it in a clean file.
This happens every day. This is what happens to many people tha (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: David Wright |
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| Article Title :: How To Succeed In The Music Business. Part 2 |
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| So you still wanna be a star?
Part 2
Whatever genre of music you’re in, you need to define your definition of success. If your definition is ‘being a rich and famous superstar’, then, well ‘good luck’... but if your definition is ‘being a creative artist doing what you want to do in life by sharing your music with those who will listen’, then you should succeed. And if you’ve got the bottle to stick to your own sound and style, your own beliefs of how your music should sound, then you’ve even more chance of success in the long term.
But be warned - flying in the face of convention, of what is current, is always difficult. B (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Charles Cruz |
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| Article Title :: How To Control The Music Download Madness |
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| After following the trend of users coming on to the internet to download movies, many resources started to come out offering you the latests downloads. At the very beggining this was great for most users.
After a while, people started to take advantage of this. They started adding pop ups, illegal spy software, among many other things to their sites. You downloaded an mp3 file and you got the file, but with it you had a shiny new browser window that told you to buy viagra everytime you surfed the web.
Fortunately, other resources came out. Legal Resources. Places were you can come inside and download music in a safe way, in a way you can trust.
These (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Ian Waugh |
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| Article Title :: How to Produce a Christmas Number One Hit |
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| The worst thing about Christmas has to be listening to Top Of The Pops and the Christmas Number 1 – Girls Aloud, Robbie Williams, Westlife and Mr Blobby for goodness sake! Surely anyone can produce a better Christmas Hit than those. After all, a computer does all the work, doesn't it - all you do is press a few buttons and jiggle a few drum and bass lines around.
So what do you need? You need a PC with a reasonable amount of processing power under the hood - a Pentium III at least, preferably a P4 - in order to run the music software.
Audio files are quite large - forget MP3s, we're talking the real thing here - and for each track of audio you record you'll need (read full article) |
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