Word: hip-hop
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...point of the exhibition is to give people an overview of hip-hop culture and history and, really, to encourage people to do their own homework. It is not going to please everyone but that is the beauty of dialogue...
...EVEN AS AN INTRODUCTION, it's a breathtaking journey. The exhibit charts the story of hip-hop's evolution from a party culture into a massive music phenomenon, starting when Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" went all the way to No. 1 hard on the heels of "Rapper's Delight." Acts such as Eric B. and Rakim took the art of rhyming to a new level of profundity, their trickster lyrical gymnastics cutting up and reordering the world, while others, such as Public Enemy, used the format as a platform for social criticism and a revival of the nationalist politics...
...Curated by hip-hop journalist Kevin Powell, the show marks the cultural phenomenon's first appearance on this scale in a major museum - on a par with the Met's recent rock 'n' roll exhibit - and it's necessarily, as its curator insists, an introductory tour rather than the last word...
...That quirky Anheuser-Busch commercial may be simply an oblique way to sell more Bud, but its use of a salutation once confined to the black suburbs of Los Angeles is also a sign that all of America has been conquered by the hip-hop nation. And if nationhood is established by a community of territory, language, culture, economy and historic experience, then the hip-hop nation has truly come...
...shared historic experience of the hip-hop nation is rich, complex and storied, replete with triumphs and tragedies; heroes and villains; martyrs and charlatans; trials and tribulations (a lot more trials, actually), and even a civil war that threatened to destroy it. Charting the culture's ascent from those heady first days to its dominant place today is the focus of the Brooklyn Museum's ambitious "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes and Rage" exhibit...