The process that I went through to find information for Tupac Shakur was not very hard. First I typed in Tupac skakur into the Google search box. I list up of entries came up but none of them interested me. So I added autobiography to the end of Tupac Shakur. Results came up but I remembered that he did not write his own biography so I took off auto and just left biography. That’s when I received entries that I was happy with. Fist I looked at a website called www.thugz-network.com. This gave me lots of information about Tupac Shakur that I never knew. After reading all that I went back to the results and clicked on a website called www.imdb.com. This website gave a mini biography with his music and movies career. It told what roles he would have been in also before his death. I then went to the results again and clicked on a website called www.2pac2k.de/bio.html. This just gave me the same information from the other sites. My internet then began to mess up and I had to start my research over again. Once I got back online I looked up four more websites that gave me the same information again. The reason I decided to choose these sources was because they provided information that I thought may have been interesting to know and it just gave me more information on the author that I was look up. The key words matched up and it just made since to choose those sources. The advantages for looking in these places were actually finding out information that I did not know about Tupac and they were easy to find. The disadvantage was not finding more information but just finding the same information on every page. This may not be the resourceful way to research but it is the easiest.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Research 4 Pac
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Cheryl Keyes-Female Rappers
Cheryl Keyes launched her musical journey in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Growing up in Louisiana’s rich musical culture from blues, gospel, zydeco, soul, jazz, rhythm ‘n’ blues, and funk, Cheryl Keyes began studying piano at age 7 and flute at age 11. Influenced by her older brother, Cheryl took an interest in jazz arranging, orchestration, and composing. She wrote her first band arrangement at the age of 13.
Keyes attended Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans on a music scholarship. Her musical interests shifted gears while taking a music history class in her senior year at Xavier. She remembered how her final class project on French Impressionist music piqued her research interest in African-derived music. Only then Keyes realized that few books then were written on this music by its originators that she pursued the study of African American music by the field of Ethnomusicology.
Cheryl Keyes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, with a specialty in African American music. Among her noted courses include Women in Jazz, Cultural History of Rap as well as a course on the blues. She is also the author of the book Rap Music and Street Consciousness, which received a CHOICE award for outstanding academic books in 2004.
Cheryl wrote a journal called Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance. Critics and scholars have often associated rap music with urban male culture. However, females have been involved in the history of this music since its early years. This article talks about Black women's contribution in shaping rap music. This book was interesting to me because usually you only here about black women in the videos shaking their body but in this journal Cheryl explains the women that is apart of the music making business and their positive role in hip hop.
Cheryl Keyes was a good candidate for writing this book because she knows about the music. This is what she has studied and observed for years. She knows what she is talking about and that’s what makes a big difference between her and others that are looking from the outside in.
Keyes attended Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans on a music scholarship. Her musical interests shifted gears while taking a music history class in her senior year at Xavier. She remembered how her final class project on French Impressionist music piqued her research interest in African-derived music. Only then Keyes realized that few books then were written on this music by its originators that she pursued the study of African American music by the field of Ethnomusicology.
Cheryl Keyes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, with a specialty in African American music. Among her noted courses include Women in Jazz, Cultural History of Rap as well as a course on the blues. She is also the author of the book Rap Music and Street Consciousness, which received a CHOICE award for outstanding academic books in 2004.
Cheryl wrote a journal called Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance. Critics and scholars have often associated rap music with urban male culture. However, females have been involved in the history of this music since its early years. This article talks about Black women's contribution in shaping rap music. This book was interesting to me because usually you only here about black women in the videos shaking their body but in this journal Cheryl explains the women that is apart of the music making business and their positive role in hip hop.
Cheryl Keyes was a good candidate for writing this book because she knows about the music. This is what she has studied and observed for years. She knows what she is talking about and that’s what makes a big difference between her and others that are looking from the outside in.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Shi 360-Israeli Rap
Shi 360, who’s real name is Shai Haddad, is an Israeli rap artist with TACT Records. He has been officially rapping since 1999. He grew up in Haifa, Israel until the age of eleven when his family moved to Montreal, Canada. Shai had to face new changes which he talked about on his first album. He received an undergraduate degree at Concordia University in Canada. At one point in his career he released an album in English called Chapters. He then decided to go back to Israel. SHI is an acronym for Supreme Hebrew Intellect and 360 represents the turn around he made to make it back to Israel. In 1997 Shai met Kobi Shimoni, another young adult interested in rap music. They became friends, and then by Shai connections with him he released his first album with TACT records in Hebrew. Shi 360 now owns his own record label called Emet Records.
Israeli rappers talk about more personal issues such as the struggles growing up in Israel. They also gear towards more religious themes since many of the rappers are Jewish or Muslim. Israeli hip hop has such a motivational theme behind it that local governments support the Hip Hop movement that has exploded among Israeli youth. The government has even supported Hip Hop groups who travel to other countries, viewing it as a good outlet for the rest of the world to view them through. Israeli Hip Hop is creating several positive movements among the people of the country that will continue to grow and become even more popular. Some of the things the Israeli rappers rap about can tend to be controversial as well. Most of the rap songs talked about real issues in society. The songs spoke of everything from terrorism and religion to children speaking up about abuse in their home.
Israeli rappers talk about more personal issues such as the struggles growing up in Israel. They also gear towards more religious themes since many of the rappers are Jewish or Muslim. Israeli hip hop has such a motivational theme behind it that local governments support the Hip Hop movement that has exploded among Israeli youth. The government has even supported Hip Hop groups who travel to other countries, viewing it as a good outlet for the rest of the world to view them through. Israeli Hip Hop is creating several positive movements among the people of the country that will continue to grow and become even more popular. Some of the things the Israeli rappers rap about can tend to be controversial as well. Most of the rap songs talked about real issues in society. The songs spoke of everything from terrorism and religion to children speaking up about abuse in their home.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Peer Review
The peer review method that my group used was talking about the problems we thought was wrong with our paper. Then we all read each other paper and answered the questions on the review paper. I believed it worked well because we identified our own errors first then we were told what else could be fixed in the paper. I feel like I received some very insightful information for my paper. Maybe I could conjure up a new idea for my paper. It also gave me new ideas about what I can do to improve my paper and what I can add to enhance the paper. All of theses suggestions worked well with the peer review. I really can not think of anything that did not work in the peer review process. I believe it went very well. Something I would do differently is change the way we went about our review process. There was nothing wrong with the way we did it but trying many different ways may be more effective than the method that we used today. I think peer review is a wonderful way t better your paper besides being lazy and not really wanting to do it, it is very helpful.
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