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Hip Hop Philosophy Final Exam
Hip Hop Philosophy Final Exam
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British Hip Hop Commentor, Anthony Thomas’ tenants of Hip Hop are
Make as much money as possible.
change the game, express yourself.
Represent your hood, keep it real, speak truth to power.
Make money, collaborate, crossover, share your message.
2
Which philosopher was a believer in nihilism?
Jean-Paul Sartre
Friedrich Nietzsche
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Martin Heidegger
3
What is a structuralist or Foucauldian approach?
Repressive institutions control our bodies
We live in a regime of control w/relative freedom in exchange for our souls
We have ultimate freedom always
Never saying sorry
4
The music and the act of rapping is what makes it different from poetry.
True
False
5
What is the inner struggle of Hip Hop?
The beefs everyone has with each other.
Building a community.
Navigating capitalist power structures while staying true to yourself.
Finding a work-life balance.
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What is Morality?
Always making other people happy no matter what.
Being Perfect.
Principles concerning the distinction between good and bad behavior.
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Strange Fruit was originally a poem before a song.
False
True
8
Typical patterns of behavior, generally accompanied by the expectation that people will behave according to the pattern.
Social Conventions
Social Descriptions
Social Norms
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What does Deleuze say about Agency?
Agency must be ontologically identified with 'virtual' ground.
The medium itself, in consequence, goes under erasure.
Statements whose truth are not based upon their meaning alone.
Art as an unveiling of truth.
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What is Derridean Terminology?
Agency must be ontologically identified with 'virtual' ground.
The medium itself, in consequence, goes under erasure.
Art as an unveiling of truth.
Statements whose truth are not based upon their meaning alone.
11
What is ICT (Internal Colonialism Theory)?
The system has taken care of black communities.
Equal rights for everyone.
The system exploits the black community for cheap labor.
Prolongs its oppression for the benefit of the white majority.
12
Nietzsche believed a failure to live, a failure to take risks, is a failure to realize human potential.
True
False
13
Did W.E.B. DuBois' vision for the American Dream ever come to fruition?
Yes
No
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Conscious Hip Hop artists don't care at all about success and financial acclaim.
False
True
15
What is the definition of Hip Hop according to KRS-One?
Conscious Movement
Community
Money Maker
Just Music
16
Theologically, how does Sin City present itself?
No Morals or Values at all
A lustful enjoyment
Schizophrenic cry for redemption
The Seven Deadly Sins
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The Hip Hop community is an international culture of consciousness that allows all to share their best ideas and work.
True
False
18
According to Nietzsche, bad is...
trying to make a lot of money.
all that is born of weakness.
making selfish decisions.
treating others poorly.
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When did Hip Hop officially begin?
August 11, 1979
August 11, 1973
February 23, 1973
June 5, 1980
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Has hip-hop been inappropriately regarded?
Yes
No
21
According to Nietzsche, good is...
all that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself.
serving others.
being the best version of yourself.
22
According to Nietzsche, happiness is...
being alone.
getting married.
the feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
being surrounded by those who love you.
23
It is important to engage with materials that promotes autonomy and critical analysis of both self and one’s environment
True
False
24
What is code switching?
When people speak differently based on where and who they are with.
Combines all dialects and language instead of code-switching.
25
Commercial Rap focuses on moving the community forward and Conscious Rap focuses on making money.
True
False
26
The arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors we engage in without necessarily thinking about them.
Social Descriptions
Social Conventions
Social Norms
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Common standards in a social group regarding socially acceptable behavior, the breach of which has social consequences.
Social Norms
Social Conventions
Social Descriptions
28
What do Saint Augustine City of God, The Greeks Atlantis, and Batman’s Gotham City all have in common with Sin City?
They are happy with their lives.
They are perfect communities.
They are all lost in some way.
29
Nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.
True
False
30
Hegel believed phenomenology includes deliberate reflection emphasizing freedom of choice.
True
False
31
Hall believed there is "no necessary correspondence" between more complex cultural expression.
False
True
32
Who observed how crucial symbols were becoming to social life?
George Hebert Mead
Glen Hubert Mark
Walter Lippman
Friedrich Nietzsche
33
Post-Modern...
comes later than that which is modern.
reader/Listener is not expected to understand/be inspired artist’s vision.
means always understanding the artists vision.
34
Who believed that media was an extension of human power that helped and did not hinder ones understanding of the world?
Marshall McLuhan
Friedrich Nietzsche
Félix Guattari
Gilles Deleuze
35
The last poets formed on
March 19, 1968
May 4, 1985
May 19, 1968
October 25, 1968
36
What does the psychoanalytic approach focus on?
Repressive institutions control our bodies
Never saying sorry
We have ultimate freedom always
We live in a regime of control w/relative freedom in exchange for our souls
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Romanticism...
has no emphasis on the imagination and emotions.
allows the reader to identify with the protagonists/poet themselves.
does not expect reader to understand/be inspired artist’s vision.
valorizes personality, creativity, and craftmanship of the artist.
38
What is Heideggerian Modernist Illustrative?
Agency must be ontologically identified with 'virtual' ground.
Art as an unveiling of truth.
The medium itself, in consequence, goes under erasure.
Statements whose truth are not based upon their meaning alone.
39
Hip Hop recognized autonomous existence. Even if constrained socially and politically, ones voice is never free.
False
True
40
Who believed that human beings are not a product of social influence?
Marshall McLuhan
Gilles Deleuze
Friedrich Nietzsche
Félix Guattari
41
Who believed that people are influenced by personal desires that reject being disciplined by media and society?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Félix Guattari
Marshall McLuhan
Gilles Deleuze
42
A true artist is one who negates, transgresses, affirms, and transforms.
True
False
43
What is solipsism?
Being cynical and selfish.
Always putting others first.
44
What is Kant’s Synthetic Knowledge?
The medium itself, in consequence, goes under erasure.
Agency must be ontologically identified with 'virtual' ground.
Art as an unveiling of truth.
Statements whose truth are not based upon their meaning alone.
45
Hip Hop artists can be seen as revolutionaries rising up in arms against the international colonization of Black America
True
False
46
With all the info available, people have no choice but to draw conclusions/stereotypes from symbols. Who believed this?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Walter Lippman
George Hebert Mead
Glen Hubert Mark
47
Hegel believed in the importance of the relationship between self and otherness.
False
True
48
Due to of slavery and racism, the black community suffered and in some ways continues to suffer from self esteem issues.
True
False
49
Plato believed that Atlantis was the ideal city.
False
True
50
Nietzsche believes that the tragic artist the glorified courage and freedom of feeling before before a powerful enemy.
True
False
