Word: mainstreaming
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Russell Simmons revolutionized both rap music and hip-hop fashion by growing them from marginal street fads to mainstream must-haves, starting with the record label he co-founded (Def Jam) and his clothing line (Phat Farm). Now 50 and pretty much retired from both worlds, hip-hop's original businessman is focused on charities and empowerment causes. Simmons spoke with Time.com about his politics, his recent book Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success, his fortune and his little princesses...
...gruesome project is unlikely to be what changes their minds.In crafting her project, our new favorite Yalie was capitalizing on shock value in order to put forth a very basic conception of sex politics—that we should not conflate gender and sexuality. But to merely abandon the mainstream medium is not a guarantee virtue. Alas, Shvarts should have been dismissed as an attention-seeking ninny, but instead she was launched into the national spotlight. Just how far has our bar fallen? The rush to affirm our commitment to social progressivism on college campuses has sadly left...
...Viglione is intimately aware of the store’s impact. “It’s a very important channel to get that side of society out, a side that doesn’t normally get a voice or a forum very much on mainstream radio or TV or anything like that. You’ve got to find places like that where you can buy it and then spread it.” The aisles were packed with music fans of all genres. Pierced, grimy punks stood next to snarky, slack-eyed hipsters with proletariat caps...
...felt that the mainstream culture of women was hypersexualized,” Gordy says. “I think that the issue is that there is now just some very one-sided images in this music...
...provides the rationale for another balance that the “Take Back the Music” contest is hoping to achieve—between the uninventive and the creative. Those involved with the contest seek to disrupt the creative stagnancy that stems from the monotony of mainstream hip-hop’s misogyny. Many people in both the contest and the genre’s broader community feel that while innovative music is being produced, it isn’t available from commercial radio stations or major labels. Thus, some critics argue that while hip-hop music has controversial...