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10a. For Tues 11/3
For Tues 11/3
Read Kelefa Sanneh’s “Gettin’ Paid: Jay-Z, criminal culture, and the Rise of Corporate Rap” and post a Media Share (#10) that connects to one of the social issues discussed in this article.
Nahid Ali media shares8
After reading “On Rap and White Noise” by Jace Clayton’s, I see the text refers to the racism issue. It is not easy to be an African-American person in society, and black people are going through a constant struggle to survive in this society peacefully. It says, African-Americans dying at the hands of the police, whose name-recognition is always posthumous, another. How to speak against that? You can’t. You can only unplug. I want to share this book about Freedom is a constant struggle by Angela Y. Davis. This book talks about the today’s struggles of black lives. Â
Mehreen Khanom Essay 2 Draft
Alexandria Dorato Media Share 8
In the reading “On Rap and White Noise”, Jace Clayton refers to the social issue of racism by using a song to grab the readers attention in the introduction. Racism is still an issue in todays world. I chose to relate “Where is The Love” by the Black Eyes Peas because it talks about the lack of love in this world and how everybody is causing madness. This song expresses the social issue just like Jace Clayton does when he uses a song to tie it into the social issue he is explaining.
Jasleen Aujla/ Media Share 8
I choose this photo because it relates to the song “There Must Be More”. In the text, author talked about the song and the people how they go through the difficulties in their life. It stated how someone stressed and tired. There must be more but still she don’t give up. This picture shows the happy face that person shows in front of others but deep inside he is broken. He is sad. So if we think we have no more difficulties or problems in our life then I think we are wrong. There must be more because things will not remain the same.
9. For Fri 10/30
Jace Clayton deftfully opens his essay on Vince Staples with a description not of the TOPICS he intends to write about—Vince Staples, noise, violence—but with a description of a SOUND, the sound (and corresponding silence) that ends Staples’ debut record.
For this week (Friday), I want you to try writing an opening to your Essay 2 that is inspired by the way Clayton opens his essay on Staples & noise. Focus on 1 sound in particular and describe it as carefully as you can in order to get your reader to “hear it” (imagine they’ve never heard this song/sound before). I suggest you listen to your song at least three times to choose your sound (like we did during the Zoom exercise). Strategies for describing your sound:
—compare this sound to something else the reader may have heard (does this beat sound like a “robot,” a “machine”? does this singing sound “angelic” or like “birds” or like “yelling”?
–consider the length of this sounds: does it go on for what seems like a long time? or is quite short? somewhere in the middle? Time it on your phone: how many seconds does it last?
–does this sound repeat throughout the song? is it repeated in an ongoing way throughout the song (like a drumbeat) or is it only repeated a couple of times (like the lyrics in a song’s refrain/chorus)?
Lastly, notice how Clayton includes his own emotional (and intellectual) experience of listening to this sound for the first time and then for a second time (“When I learned this tear…was intentional, I was shocked…”). Include a short paragraph describing your own experience listening to this sound for the first time and then re-listening to this sound a second, third, and fourth time. Write about differences you notice in your experience.
Share your new beginning to Essay 2 as a comment below.
Lubna Mojumder Essay Draft 1
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Dom Padon 10/27 Media Share
After reading Jace Clayton’s “On Rap and White Noise”, I found this image to mimic the observation of the song’s “suddenness” in static and the abrupt end. The photo is a screenshot from a firework video, wherein lightning strikes a flying firework out of nowhere, and we are able to see the randomness or suddenness (hardy har har) in natural life, and to me, that shows how nature and human life are similar in that anything can happen at anytime and sometimes, we can’t do anything about it. No human had control over the lightning hitting the firework, the same way no human has complete control over their life’s events. Sudden change is a constant in our lives, and that’s just the way it goes.
Mehreen Khanom Media Share 8
I feel like this picture connects to “The Full Retard” because the author is trying to figure out what Meline is trying to say in the song. In the text, it states “its overall effect a parade of sonic likenesses of the coming world’s broken infrastructure.” The author is saying the lyrics are all broken and it isn’t put together. Also, the author thinks there is no point in trying to figure out Meline’s imagination.
