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Beyond 'The Wackness': Hip-Hop & Whiteness At the Movies
brandonsoderberg.blogspot.com - 7/11/2008
Beyond 'The Wackness': Hip-Hop & Whiteness At the Movies
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Armond White's review of Adam Yauch's 'Gunnin' for that #1 Spot' and Jonathan Levine's 'The Wackness' focuses on each film's rap fueled soundtrack and how it connects to each film's "human dimension[s]" and "artful expression". What's interesting is how neither movie uses rap music as a "hood" signifier (characters enter the city=play rap) or a big dumb joke (see the work of Judd Apatow, or ...

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The House Next Door — ... 2. "Beyond 'The Wackness': Hip-Hop & Whiteness At the Movies": From earlier in the week, Brandon Soderberg takes his hip-hop knowledge cinema way. ...

Damn it feels good...
Mostly Movies — A fun examination of hip-hop as used by white characters in films from The Wackness to Paranoid Park. (No Trivia) Rap music is hard to pull-off in a movie because it's very distracting music that demands attention; it rarely blends into the background. Additionally, most of the viewing public's stuck in incredibly out-dated (or never made sense) concepts of what rap music is, what it means, and how it can be used. So, when a rap song comes-in at a point that's emotionally powerful well, it just doesn't resonate, it's just distracting. ...

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