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Hip-Hop: A Raging Business |
| Section: THE ARTS / PERSPECTIVES |
| Author: Alicia Waite |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2001 |
| Size: 2,466 Words, 15,839 Characters |
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In an apparent attempt to ingratiate itself with the community in which the genre was born, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, long a citadel of controversy, has staged a paean to hip-hop. The exhibition, Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage, which runs through December 31, 2000, presents the accoutrements of what it describes as "the most influential American cultural phenomenon of the past twenty-five years." The glitzy multimedia exhibition, the first of its depth and scope, belies the medium's stark and sometimes sinister reality, displaying over four hundred items from the 1970s to the present, among them hip-hop fashions, videos, and artifacts.
The exhibit's guest curator, Kevin Powell, paints a more somber, everyday image of hip-hop. "Something peculiar erupts when you've b...
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...to undermine hip-hop's quest for political power and a conscious political agenda."
Politics notwithstanding, twenty years after "Rapper's Delight" and nearly thirty years after this highly innovative music and culture were born, hip-hop is the most significant youth art form on earth. Unfortunately, it is also sending out the message that self-degradation sells, and sells big.
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