Hip-Hop a Black Culture, in the 1980's

Black Culture, Hip-Hop, 1980's Music

Presenter: Vanessa Big Bear

Presenter Status: Undergraduate student

Academic Year: 20-21

Semester: Spring

Faculty Mentor: Sandra Moore

Department: American Multicultural Studies

Funding Source/Sponsor: SYRCE Symposium

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Abstract:
The aspect of the Black Culture during the 1980’s I will be exploring, and researching is how music like Hip-Hop became a big part if the black culture. I will be discussing the impacts it made, stories it told, and how it empowered the black culture. Hip-Hop started in the middle of the 1970’s with a type of beat and skip of combine two records that the listeners like and could dance to. It slowly progressed into a rhyming and rapping along with the beats and speaking real life problems the black community had to deal with. All throughout the 1980’s the Hip-Hop music grew, and the black culture had something to call theirs and could really express themselves listening to it, whether it was dancing, break dancing, graffiti, other art forms, and being empowered by it. By the 90’s Hip-Hop had many rappers and Hip-Hop artist that really spoke out about police brutality and the injustice the black community had to deal with in hear in America, land of the free, so they say. This is how the historic changes that occurred in the 1980’s impacted Black culture in the 1990's, and beyond like today. The music Hip-Hop, rap music that was made in the 1970’s all the way into the 1990’s is still very relevant to the problems that are still going on against Blacks in America from the children to the adults just trying to live and survive. The music from the past it still speaking hard facts and truth to people today and it is very sad to hear a lot of those problems that are sung about in the music, are still going on today. This music gives power and strength to the black community.