Headline: Favelization
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Museum
The author argues that the image of the Brazilian favela is being misappropriated to market high fashions to non-Brazilians. The author argues that such usage of the Continue Reading...
Rap Music - a Soundtrack of Revolution
Soundtrack of Revolution for the Generations of Rap Artists Since 1980s
Hip hop is a culture that encompasses a vast corporation of artistic forms, which originated from marginalized subcultures within the Sou Continue Reading...
Women in 2 Stories Studied
The Female's Role in "The Story of an Hour"
The 19th Century is on record as one where male dominance and authoritarianism was the order of the day. Women were mainly passive and subservient. However, towards the end of Continue Reading...
Fortune Affect Grand Master Flash's Political Message?
Music is one of the most powerful forms of communication. It utilizes different types of information networks to cut across linguistic and social boundaries. In several occasions music has the Continue Reading...
Barbie's official website does feature an adult doll collection of "Dolls of the World" which has a slightly more diverse range of images, but even these dolls are fairly uniform in style: the Asian doll is decked out in a midriff-bearing sexy, sari Continue Reading...