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Essay on Philosophy of Music?

junior88
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Posted 10/22/09 - 01:49 PM: Subject: Essay on Philosophy of Music?	#1
1st, I know that you don't want to help me with homework, but this is not a question that i could easily find out using WIKI. Well, I'm preparing to write a paper on the philosophy of Hip Hop. This is my first philosophy paper and I come to find out that I have no clue on how to write a philosophy paper. I know my hip hop and love it and know that it has a philosophy that it follows, but don't how to express it on paper. Can anyone give me some ideas on how you will do it, you can explain by using another art, like rock and roll for example. Thank You.

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Posted 10/22/09 - 10:00 PM:	#2
Firstly, try not to think about the idea that it "has a philosophy that it follows." This isn't the same use of "philosophy" that one sees in the phrase "philosophy and classics," for example. Philosophy is the art of reasoning, the love of wisdom, the disease for which it should be the cure, etc. Instead, start by asking yourself questions that will give rise to your thesis statement. What about hip hop do you want to write about, really? Are there any beliefs that others have expressed about hip hop that you don't agree with - that you want to defend it against? Perhaps you're interested in focusing on how positive the street dancing can be; it can keep people out of trouble, instead doing something that itself adds to the culture, emotionality, and intensity of hip hop. Once you come up with a thesis statement - an assertion about hip hop that you wish to defend in your essay - you should see responses with a bit more meat on them.
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Posted 10/22/09 - 10:38 PM:	#3
You would basically be analyzing the history and compartments of the style and connecting these to make a sort of "whole picture" of what is the comkplete and actual style by consdiering the most basic and themost inticate aspects of the music style. First, begin with the ties the music has to other musical styles in history. Next, you could explore the imstruments used to make this style of music; where they came from; what technology, if any was involved, and what all of this says about how the history of these instruments was to the era when the mucis style began. Third, the other artists who explored and were past of the music styule which contributed to the development of your chosen music style, and what they represent and how they are famous and so their relvence. This is actually something I find to be really intersting, and I wish there was a sort of "all-in-one " documentary exploring modern music genres. Anyway. Have fun.
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Posted 10/28/09 - 04:02 PM:	#4
I'm actually normally against running a comparison to other types of genres for a subject. All that tells me is what hip hop is not - and even then that means you don't even scratch a surface. I do however enjoy comparing the basic definition of music to any specific genre. Then you go from there. If you examine the expressed feelings - I don't want to know that country is this la-di-da thing. I want to know the generalized statement for hip hop. Then I might be interested in the word-to-emotion and tone(music scale)-to-feeling that they use. Everything else others stated I more or less agree with.
"...There was a writer who asked why it was that when we find positive experiences we say that only the physical facts are real, but in negative experiences we believe that reality is subjective. He made an example of those who say that in birth only the pain is real, the joy a subjective point of view, but that in death it is the emotional loss that is the reality." - Tony Ballantyne, Recursion. _____________________________________________ Truth is want. - The internal state of matters. Truth is Need. - The external state of affairs.

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