Transition of blues and jazz music into the modern hip-hop genre
Students must write a 3-page research paper and can choose from one of the topics below and must address all components of the art form as it pertains to hip-hop. All papers must have three sources including an online source, a book, and a scholarly journal article. Chicago style citation format is required for this paper. Select one of the topics below.
Review the transition of blues and jazz music into the modern hip-hop genre, focusing on the specific cultural references that highlighted the blues and jazz periods and how they relate to modern hip-hop cultural ideals. Through your research, ask yourself what blues and jazz musicians were trying to say about their culture, why they were disallowed from saying it in other ways and what was the significance to their culture at the time. Apply those same criteria to modern hip-hop and discuss what this transition may mean in regards to the changing cultural times.
