Hip Hop Culture and Politics

Hip Hop Culture and Politics

The new generation today are more inclined to music, where most of the time it shows their personality through he way they choose what kind of music to listen. Some teenagers like hip hop because it doesn't need a good voice to follow the trend of music but all you have to do is to have the guts and follow the beat of music. In line with the new generation, an organization was formed called Hip-Hop, their mission as stated on the online source, http://www.hsan.org/content/main.aspx?pageid=7:

Founded in 2001, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) is dedicated to harnessing the cultural relevance of Hip-Hop music to serve as a catalyst for education advocacy and other societal concerns fundamental to the well-being of at-risk youth throughout the United States. HSAN is a non-profit, non-partisan national coalition of Hip-Hop artists, entertainment industry leaders, education advocates, civil rights proponents, and youth leaders united in the belief that Hip-Hop is an enormously influential agent for social change which must be responsibly and proactively utilized to fight the war on poverty and injustice.

This organization is in line with George Rose book because they have the same views and concepts when it comes to voicing out the opinions of the youth. It is not just music that they were trying to convey message but also through their outfit. They wear outfit that they think it will be express what they feel. During the 1970's, George found out that the way youth expresses their feelings are through writing on the walls, watching concerts with audience participation and wearing outfits that reveal their emotion. The HSAN is almost the same with George except that in this generation where everything is completely different from the past, with the coming of the fastest technology and everybody is online, where you can chat anywhere in the world, there will be no more writings on the wall but instead you can write anything and everything online and people can see and access what you have written.

The organization tried to recruit people from all walks of life but most of its members are artist, youth leaders, from entertainment industry and from any political organization. The political organization can fit them because politically the youth are being forgotten when it comes to political issues. They are taken for granted that is why here in the site of hsan.org, you can paste your comments and suggestions or even views and analysis when it comes to political issues. There is freedom of expression here in the HSAN as long as what you put in that site is valid. There are a lot of entertainers now who gives meaning to the youth opinions and some of them were Americans, their music are louder than before because every part of the world are already hooked up to each and every one so accessed to information are easy and within reach. Here are some of the information about HSAN's aspiration based on the online source, http://www.hsan.org/Content/main.aspx?pageid=27:

1. We want freedom and the social, political and economic development and empowerment of our families and communities; and for all women, men and children throughout the world.

2. We want equal justice for all without discrimination based on race, color, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, creed or class.

3. We want the total elimination of poverty.

4. We want the highest quality public education equally for all.

5. We want the total elimination of racism and racial profiling, violence, hatred and bigotry.