To the Academy
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To the Academy, With Love, From a Hip - Hop Fan
“Hip- hop, no music for old men!” The argumentative essay “To the Academy, With Love, From a Hip - Hop Fan” by Jamilah Evelyn which was published in a scholarly journal “ Black issues in higher Education” in the year 2001 deals with the issue that professors, in the usa, do not really have a good connection to their students. In order to show us her concern, she quotes the idea that scholars should listen to hip hop music, to understand their students and to get a better relationship to them as well. During the whole text she is using terms like “ho-ism”,” sadism”, “b – boys”, “hoochie mamas”, and that we should “keep it real”. All this terms are part of the hip hop language and crucial for her essay. It is to say that the specific focus of the essay is that the author tries to achieve that professors have a better connection to their students. By using those terms and saying that she is a fan in an academic way, gives us the impression that she has got background knowledge about this topic and that she is a reliable source. This essay will hopefully support her main idea by analyzing her thoughts of the responsibility of the university, the dismissal of a whole genre by scholars and last a better strategy to show understanding.
The universities are responsible to make sure that there is a better understanding for hip hop music. “To extend its reach” (Evelyn 1). The only possibility to reach that extension would be that professors would get some background knowledge about the music their students are listening to. This is what Jamilah Evelyn claims by saying “love it or hate it, but attempt to understand it “(1). She wants to convince scholars, but mainly professors, to understand the culture of that genre in order to get a better connection to their students.
The fact that scholars dismiss a whole genre and its fans is according to Jamilah Evelyn “disappointing “(1). Not only the fact that some scholar’s...
“Hip- hop, no music for old men!” The argumentative essay “To the Academy, With Love, From a Hip - Hop Fan” by Jamilah Evelyn which was published in a scholarly journal “ Black issues in higher Education” in the year 2001 deals with the issue that professors, in the usa, do not really have a good connection to their students. In order to show us her concern, she quotes the idea that scholars should listen to hip hop music, to understand their students and to get a better relationship to them as well. During the whole text she is using terms like “ho-ism”,” sadism”, “b – boys”, “hoochie mamas”, and that we should “keep it real”. All this terms are part of the hip hop language and crucial for her essay. It is to say that the specific focus of the essay is that the author tries to achieve that professors have a better connection to their students. By using those terms and saying that she is a fan in an academic way, gives us the impression that she has got background knowledge about this topic and that she is a reliable source. This essay will hopefully support her main idea by analyzing her thoughts of the responsibility of the university, the dismissal of a whole genre by scholars and last a better strategy to show understanding.
The universities are responsible to make sure that there is a better understanding for hip hop music. “To extend its reach” (Evelyn 1). The only possibility to reach that extension would be that professors would get some background knowledge about the music their students are listening to. This is what Jamilah Evelyn claims by saying “love it or hate it, but attempt to understand it “(1). She wants to convince scholars, but mainly professors, to understand the culture of that genre in order to get a better connection to their students.
The fact that scholars dismiss a whole genre and its fans is according to Jamilah Evelyn “disappointing “(1). Not only the fact that some scholar’s...