Cultural Appropriation Of Rap Culture

Cultural exchange on the other hand, it is being misunderstood but yet it started from appropriation. Cultural exchange is defined as exchanging different information from a new culture, usually between countries to promote mutual understanding. It is a way of sharing and gaining new knowledge from the new culture, to get a better technologies between cultures with roughly equal levels of power (Rogers, 2006).

According to another study of hip-hop culture and rap music in Europe, Hip hop culture started in the following orders France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece. The origin of rap began in the 1980s in France by Bocqeut and Pierre-Adlophe, and in Germany the popular aspect of hip-hop is graffiti and break dancing. Soon in Italy, rap was

It utilizes colorful costumes, makeup and striking visual effects putting Egyptian culture into a artistic theme that attempts to glorify a civilization by constructing it through fantasy (Michaels, 2014). In the music video, there are a specific scenarios that I would like to pinpoint to represent how cultural appropriation continues to be seemingly ignored as troubling and consequently used as a mechanism within popular culture. The scenery of three followers in the video were clearly racial through their costumes and characterized by a stereotype of Western biased media. In the next move, Katy Perry as Egypt Queen Cleopatra rejected three followers and turn them into dust, symbolic representation of how the race’s hierarchy of privilege in Western media representations (Global flow, 2014 ). The performance in Figure 2, it heavily uses Japanese culture as a theme for the performance. She dressed as a geisha, using illustration and Japanese elements to decorate the stage. Some people sees it as appropriating as it misrepresented it, and misaligned a portion of Japanese entertainment typically performed in a much more socially aware context (Lang, 2013 & Feeney, 2013). These example show above can clearly show appropriation, misrepresenting, using with any knowledge of the culture, creating stereotyping and

As an example of a Transpacific form of fusion music, a pop music in the 2012 “one more night ” by a group Maroon 5. It is a reggae-influenced pop song. The music video talks about not getting along with someone and hoping he only stays with her just "one more night". It is built upon the idea that the heart, mind and body usually want to oppose things. It is a combination song of pop, rock and reggae music genre, called pop rock by the American. The music still remaining uniquely Maroon 5, as the music mix is hard for other to make because of the genre (Sciarretto, 2012). Moreover, another great example of transpacific cultural is Kumi-daiko, a fusion from Taiko Boom. Originally, Taiko was a niche Japanese musical drum performance. However, a jazz drummer named Daihachi Oguch, broke the traditional single person performance and assembled taiko into a group performance, an inspiration of American Jazz. Forming a completely new fusion of taiko is created named as Kumi-daiko. Kumi-daiko when widely popular in the 1970s , which started Kumi-daiko in USA (Viviano,2013). Daihachi Oguch bring his knowledge of American Jazz as a influence, to create an alternative version of Taiko. He was successful in creating a culturally influential music and a musical popular Taiko which is enjoyable and accepted by the public (brown,