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Rap, Race, and lleolily: llun•D.M.C. Michael Eric Dyson Black popular music grows out of the everyday lives of black people. For generations, it has reflected the dominant themes in our experi ence, and it has shaped the cultural and social sensibilities of our youth. That is why so many of us value it as an ongoing repository of culture and think of black pop singers and musicians as cura black tors, after a fashion, of the Afro-American cultural archives. That is also why we are paying close attention to rap music, and to the criticism it has evoked.I Rap, of course, is especially popular among urban black teenagers. With its staccato beats, its driving, lancing rhythms, and its hip lyrics, it reflects its origins in their world: a world that is increasingly an odyssey-through the terror of ghetto gangs, drugs, and racism in search of an authentic personal identity and legitimate social standing. The seemingly endless obstacles that frustrate this search, together with the humor, nonsense, and latent absurdity of urban life, provide the content of rap songs. In essence rap is an expanding musical form that is experimenting widely in order to reflect the varied visions of its
Black Sacred Music – Duke University Press
Published: Sep 1, 1989
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