Hi, friends! Instead of reading more theory this weekend, let's head right over to Kevin Young. Please read this excerpt from Young's wonderful book, The Grey Album, and listen to the two songs below, both of which are mentioned in the article.
Then, please write a 250-word blog entry considering how Young's thinking about the relationship between movements of thought (like modernism), movements of creativity (like the Harlem Rennaissance), musical genre (like the blues), and historical envents could be applied to Modern Rap and Country Music.
How might we place these genres with the same context into which Young places the Blues? Finally, how might Hebdige's ideas about subculture and style help us to do so?
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