Hip hop started in the Bronx Burroughs of New York City in the 1970s. It started as a way for people to come with issues such as racism, gender identity, national identity, and being LGBTQ. Hip hop and rap music is often about violence, as many city neighborhoods deal with a lot of violence each year. These themes reflect the lives that people lead and issues that are important to them, because these are things that they see each day, and issues that are about their identities.
Hip Hop artists are now found out throughout the world because these same themes are common in other cultures besides the U.S. These other cultures deal with similar problems with ethnic discrimination, feeling marginalized, and also violence. Nigeria has a hip hop scene. Nigeria has clashes between different tribes, and also against Christians and Muslims. There is also a lot of gender discrimination with women and girls being kept from education and work in some areas. These things are an element in Nigerian hip hop music.
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3. The American music video showed a lot of gun violence. It showed how black men often wanted to live their lives peacefully and to make a decent living, yet they still dealt with violence and racism. We see black men being shot for not doing anything wrong. Even a church choir is shot at. It also shows violence when people are going about their lives. The Nigerian music video shows ethnic differences in Nigeria, with some women wearing head coverings. There we see the clashes that the ethnic groups have there. Nigeria also has violence in many areas, and it is something that people deal with on a regular basis. Both videos show a lot of how people have to deal with violence and discrimination.
Hades Welcomes His Bride
While an undergraduate student at Andrews University I took a poetry class. I studied some of A.E. Stallings' poetry. She studied lots of classical poetry and literature of Greece. She does translation of poetry from Greek to English. An interesting thing she said was that when she was at university to study ancient, Greek poetry, she came across some poems that described early springtime flowers such as hyacinths blooming at the same time as later spring flowers. She interpreted that as a "golden age". She was later surprised when visiting the Greek countryside and finding those flowers blooming at the same time . She said that sometimes we do have to take things literally. This poem gave me the chills when I first read it. It is so deep and dark. Hades Welcomes His Bride Come now, child, adjust your eyes, for sight Is here a lesser sense. Here you must learn Directions through your fingertips and feet And map them in your mind. I think some shapes Will gradually
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