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african-american history

The Backlash against Jeff Chang 's Can 't Stop , Won 't Stop

Through the years , hip hop has evolved not just as a popular music genre but as an emergent subculture in American society . Although it may be considered by many as a combination of other cultural forms , most of these are of purely African and Caribbean origins , the ultimate result of such melding cannot be argued as one distinctly American . This is in context with the concept that American culture is actually a mixture of different cultural influences , a consequence of the

fact that the country 's population is composed of diverse races and nationalities Being a subculture , hip hop reflects the life of the marginalized Afro-Am sector of society . It portrays the difficulties of living in the ghettos of the east coast cities and in the poorer sections or hoods of those in west coast . At the same time and to certain degree , usually subliminal , it also explains the aspirations of the impoverished Afro-American people in the US

Since its beginnings in the seventies , the hip hop subculture did not attract so much attention from journalists and academics , which would have been able to analyze its significance in the context of the social problems experienced by the Afro-American people . Instead , it had been often recognized as just another popular form of music that can be related to other modern art forms such as break dancing and graffiti DJing and MCing . All these were attributed to the artistic talents...

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