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1
Walter Benjamin wrote Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction to __________________.
Prevent the damage of Modernity
Rescue art from Fascism
Challenge the influence of Capitalism
Fight against the forces of Communism
2
Karl Marx called the drive to buy objects for their representational power, ________________.
Class Struggle
Commodity Fetishism
The Superstructure
Urbanization
3
Why does a product’s logo represent Simulacra?
It’s meanings and history are erased from the image.
It is a symbol independent of meaning
It is a symbol that tells the brand history
It is an image without reality
4
What does Jameson see breaking down in the post-modern world?
Divide between high sand low cultures
Western centric culture
The link between Capitalism and Democracy
Capitalism
5
Where did hip hop come from?
Rural communities of black farmers
Suburban Blight
The poor countryside
Urban Ghettos
6
The dislocation from reality in media can lead to ______________.
Hyper-nationalism
Corruption and Scams
Moral panics
Virtual worlds
7
The process of moving away from natural spaces as ‘reality’ can be called ________________.
Westernization
Urbanization
Hyper-Reality
Commoditization
8
What does the power of discourse in hip hop do?
Elevates the subaltern to become modern
Challenges manufactured truths
Challenges frameworks of white supremacy
Deconstructs colonized discourse
9
The matrix of privilege and oppression is called ______________.
Coloniality
Feminism
Intersectionality
Modernity
10
An attribute of post-modernity in music and film might be ________________.
Sampling
Re-mastering
M.C.ing
mixing
11
Hip-Hop culture contains four major components. Which is NOT one of them?
Bombing
Breaking
Voguing
D.J.ing
12
Deconstruction focuses on meanings because meanings of words are _______________.
Power
Binary
Unstable
Stable and predictable
13
Jameson sees the use of technology in a post-modern society ________________.
To make virtual reality
Not for production, but for reproduction
To create simulations and simulacra
To mask reality in the world
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Which is NOT a post-colonial attribute found in Hip-hop culture?
Authentic Identities
Globalized Impact
Misogyny
Challenging White Supremacy
15
Jean Baudrillard defines simulacra as _______________________.
Technology creating a layer of artificial reality in society.
The break from Modernity to Post-Modernity.
New meanings to symbols to replace reality.
A world of intensity of images and emotion.
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What are identities NOT?
Identities are multiple
Identities are overlapping
Identities are negotiated
Identities are fixed
17
How do ‘Bling’ and ‘Bombing’ cultures fit into post-colonial theory?
People claiming territory and wealth
Reclaiming the lands and goods extracted from colonialism.
People made invisible becoming visible to whiteness.
The subaltern claiming the poser of discourse.
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The main language of contemporary culture is _________________.
Modernity
White Supremacy
Structuralism
Hip-Hop
19
Who’s example did Jameson use to illustrate the break from real experience to consumed stylization?
Hip-Hop Culture
Television
The Internet
Historical Films
20
Jameson describes the postmodern world as a world of multiple truths, This is linked to__________.
Deconstruction
Positivism
Structuralism
Relativism
21
What did Walter Benjamin feel was destroyed in mechanical reproduction?
The Reality
The “aura”
Objective truth
Artistic Value
22
The current cultural era according to anthropologists is the ____________________.
The Anthropocene
The Paleocene
The Pleistocene
The Holocene
23
Post-Colonial Theory grew from _______________.
Modernity
Intersectional Theory
Marxism
Feminism
24
Hip-hop is a discourse of ______________________.
The West
Capitalist Classes
The subaltern
Elites
25
The colonizer must demonstrate two things about the colonized. They are _________________.
A) They lack modernity and B) they lack civilization
A) They are ignorant, and B) They waste their resources
A) They need improvement and B) They can improve.
A) They are uncivilized and B) They need control
26
The post-colonial, post-modern world started _______________________.
After The Cold War
After WWII
After the Vietnam War
After WWI
27
Late Stage Capitalism is an economy that manufactures _________________.
Simulations
High technological products
Brands
Experiences
28
Post-Colonial Discourse does NOT include which of the following?
Claiming language and narratives
Commoditized Culture
Hybridity
Globalism
29
Power creates knowledge. Knowledge creates _________________.
Language
Control
Modernity
Truth
30
A major feature in contemporary production of art and music is _______________.
Slang
Imperialism
Identity
Narrative
31
The Black Hole of Empire shows _________________.
How Coloniality shaped post-colonial society
How colonized people fought back
How both colonizer and colonized consent to Coloniality
How colonizers shaped their subjects
32
Jacques Derrida pioneered the theory of ___________________.
Deconstruction
Post-Colonialism
Intersectionality
Structuralism
33
You-Tubers and Influencers show us ________________________.
A post-modern society looking for escape.
A post-modern society is always looking for commodities.
A post-modern society manufactures personalities.
A post-modern society consumes itself.
34
What best describes the meaning of Modernity?
A belief in White Supremacy and Science
A belief in basic truth, order and grand narratives
A belief in technological supremacy
A belief in reality hidden by technology
35
The force behind stages of Postmodernism and Post-Modernity is _________________.
Disenchantment
Marxism
Modernity
Late Stage Capitalism
36
Derrida believed the world was made of ___________________.
Language
Natural Laws
Theories
Power
37
A Post-Modern society in Late Stage capitalism sells ____________ with products.
Symbols and meanings
Instant values and lifestyles
Immediate experiences
Simulated realities
38
________________________ provided hip-hop its visual style.
DJ KOOL Herc
Jean-Michel Basquait
Andy Warhol
Jean Baudrillard
39
In discussing post-modernity, Frederic Jameson identified ______________ as the ‘wink’ of knowing.
Icons
Reflection
Simulacra
Pastiche
40
Edward Said’s famous book on Post-Coloniality is called, ____________________.
Orientalism
Imagined Communities
The Occidental Tourist
The West and the East
41
Post-Colonialism tries to destroy the _______________ built by colonizers.
Frames
Cities
Stereotypes
Languages
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A blending of cultures can be called ________________.
Hybridity
Race mixing
Postmodern Artifact
Miscegenation
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The use of slang or ‘misuse’ of language can be called _______________.
Resistance Vernacular
Power of Discourse
Discursive Resistance
Subaltern Discourse