Tricia Rose's "Black Noise"

Rose explains that hip hop was spawned by many different social and political factors, but

postindustrial oppression is what started rap in the late 1970's. She criticizes the way that some

critics see at hip hop as simply a post modern practice, or how others see it as simply an

incarnation of pre-modern oral traditions, because she believes that these explanations do not do

justice to its intricacies and complexities. Hip hop culture, a category which includes rap, graffiti

and breakdancing, expanded in the 1970's due to: urban life in 1970's New York, technological

advances, economic advances, and advances in communication. All of this is in addition to Afro-

Caribbean and Afro-American music and oral and visual dance forms combine to form hip-hop

culture. Rose exemplifies how the above social situations shaped hip hop by exploring Andre

Craddock-Willis's theory that the blues, jazz, R&B and rap are "expressions that emerge in relation

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