2537661, Why can't hip-hop be studied contextually and musically?
Posted by rorschach, Thu Apr-14-11 02:08 AM
It has merits in both fields. I'm all up for academic studies of hip-hop albums and songs......as long as there isn't a great deal of reaching and mythologizing.
That being said, there's so much that could be said about the musical qualities and merits of hip-hop. I really wish more academic figures in music would tackle all of that. Think about it........hip-hop truly was/is a completely different approach to creating music and it should finally start getting the treatment that other, more established genres of popular music have received.
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