Soul Sonic Forces

Soul Sonic Forces- Technology, Orality, and Black Cultural Pratice in Rap Music

Soul Sonic Forces begins with the ideals and the many differences between Western music and Rap. In the beginning it talks about a music chariman who recognizes the art form of rap music but could not seem to tolerate it in his own home. This relates back to the authentication of art work, who gets the say in art and who gives art its own aura but the people who are supposed experts in the field.
Western music has been known as the moving point from where all sounds can come from. The harmony you hear from a musical piece compared to the rythems of rap is entirely different. Rap in itself is a form of art, the beats and the rythems dating back to African drum or war sounds. Repetition in the music in Western music has been hidden so that if sounds were reproduced, they would be done so with growth and accumulating popularity, while in rap, the beats were made to be repeated so they can grow in strength and power.
The new uses of technology has put music on a whole different level and the different ways you could make beats and rythems has been mainly the engineers job given to workers while the producers who made the music would say that the many beats and rythems were just the engineers playing with the machine or breaking it in someway.
The difference sin Western and Rap music is very different, it really is like the subculture which became the mass culture after awhile. The expression in rap let the oppressed blcak population give in to their feelings while the rest of society looked down upon them and anything that they might do. What society doesn't understand, it shuns, but soon society will eventually turn on itself and a new part of ideals and values will form from the many groups of subcultures.