S/MD/31. Examine the homologous relationship between a subculture (Hip Hop) and its music in terms of class, age and race

This paper examines the socio economic conditions in which Hip Hop developed-and to which it was a reaction, the theories of the Chicago school, and the idea of style as a coded response to changes affecting the working class community. Discussing the ideas of Paul Willis and Dick Hebdige, I explain how the members of Hip Hop culture challenged the dominant ideology and hegemony through style and symbolic appropriation. I use Hip Hop artists such as Public Enemy as examples and look at all the forms of hip hop culture, for example break dancing, fashion, graffiti and the music itself and how these real material and social elements are homologous with the groups concerns and experiences of subordination.