Music. It is all around us. Think about the genres of music you listen to and where did they originate from? Do you still listen to the original music, or do you listen to a version of it?
Hip hop is the most well known example of how Glocalisation in music works.
Hip Hop originated in America, when you think of hip hop, what springs to mind? Bitches and hoes, parties, gold bling bling, black American men rapping (yes I know Eminem is white, I’m excluding him from my description), girls in little to know clothes. That’s my view anyway.
Now think about Australian Hip Hop, can you imagine Australian hip hop in this way at all? It’s definitely not in our immediate ‘culture’ like it is in the American hip hop culture. What do Australian hip hop artists sing about? The same thing? Different things? Some say its similar, others say it is not, it depends who you listen to and how interested you are in it.
Glocalisation is making this possible. Glocalisation is a world-wide phenomenon that is localised for your area. Such as; hip hop is world wide (UK, Asia, America, Europe all have versions of it), but they have their own version of it. The music sounds different, the scene surrounding it is different, this is how culture can affect globalisation in that the culture of your location changes the objectives in the music, we deal with different issues to the Americans, so therefore we have different music.
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Hey Nick.
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I love the way you write! The mix of humor and facts are brilliant done and you´re posts are interesting and entertaining to read. Well done!
In this post you are writing about how hiphop genere. I agree that even though is the same it will be different from where you hear it. As you say when i think of hiphop i think of the big black American men who sings about their cock size, hoes, killing and drugs. I´m from Norway and call tell you that norwegian hipphoppers are nothing like that at all.
Everything we do and thing in our culture are effected by our surroundings.
I don't get why you have chosen dinosaurs as a background but it´s hilarious.!
God Luck!
Sebastian Solberg
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Another great read Nick, I remember us briefly discussing as a class the Hip-hop cultures and for you to take that and us it in a more in depth way for your blogs was very clever! The post is very opinionated and comparing the different cultures from different countries is well done and ties in well with globalisation! I know its hard often to find a suitable academic piece to use when discussing a topic like hip-hop, but the only way to improve this piece would be with some academic information, great work again mate!
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