Stupidity as Art Form
Smithsonian to Collect Hip-Hop Relics
Associated Press ^ | 2/27/06 | By MARCUS FRANKLIN Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK
For nearly three decades, hip-hop relics such as vinyl records, turntables, microphones and boom boxes have collected dust in boxes and attics.
On Tuesday, owners of such items _ including pioneering hip-hop artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Fab 5 Freddy _ will blow that dust off and carry them to a Manhattan hotel to turn them over to National Museum of American History officials.
The museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., is announcing its plans to embark on a collecting initiative, "Hip-Hop Won't Stop: the Beat, the Rhymes, the Life."
The project, the beginnings of a permanent collections, will gather objects that trace hip-hop's origins in the Bronx in the 1970s to its current global reach. It is expected to cost as much as $2 million and take up to five years to complete.
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Hip-hop culture, whose main elements include rappers, DJs and breakdancers, is considered one of the most powerful cultural explosions ever. Today, it's incorporated into marketing to sell everything from cars and clothing to food and furniture.
"Hip-hop was born in New York but it's now a global phenomenon," said Valeska Hilbig, a National Museum spokeswoman. "It's here to stay, and it's part of American culture just like jazz is part of American history. It's part of the narrative we tell at the museum."
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Like what, bullets and bad rhymes all with the same beat?
Maybe they can get Cornell West to wear bling bling and yap like a junkyard dog from the roof.
Will there be a crack-pipe display also?
The Museum of American History has devolved into little more than a cheerleader for "black cultural narratives" and chroniclers of racism at the expense of an American history that emphasizes the principles of our founding, or even many of the elements that make us a great nation.
Patron: Where is the Hip-Hop exhibit?
Guide: Straight ahead just past the Pimp and Ho exhibit.
Somehow I am still of the opinion that you can paint cardboard and it will still be cardboard.
What a great idea! Let's all mail the Smithsonian (unused) crack pipes, vials, spent shell casings, and copies of cop-killer lyrics. Emphasize how important it is that our children fully undertand and appreciate hip-hop culture. Copy your congressman and your local talk radio station.
White liberal guilt on parade.
We just visited the Museum of American History and, frankly, it is a national disgrace.
We were lured in by the website which touted a special exhibit on Benjamin Franklin, A Revolutionary Role . The Franklin exhibit was one painting and a two plaque discussion of his suit, his clothing - no mention of who he was or any of his real accomplishments.
85% of the museum covers black history and/or labor union history.
For instance, a small Ellis Island exhibit had a section on a changing and developing NYC culture, but the ONLY cultural aspect of NYC explored was Black jazz. No matter how you twist it, Africans were not processed through Ellis Island.
In another exhibit on railroads in America - We were told on EVERY exhibit board (in the same words) that Blacks had to sit in a different compartment, and when we get to a lifelike exhibit of a train station we see seated statues of blacks in a "colored section" (the rest of the station is missing, now).
Then there are the exhibits exclusively devoted to Black History (and covering about 40% of the exhibit space square footage:
There were visitors from all over the world, but people were obviously bored. I spoke to a few. By and large, they came to learn the history of the founding of America, but a real timeline was simply not available.
The museum is just too "agenda in your face".
Smithsonian to Collect Hip-Hop Relics
Mad dogs are now all over our great country and getting to the other side of the street is becoming more, and more difficult.
These (and other) patronizing exhibits should be relegated to the new Timothy Leary Museum dedicated to the decline of civilization.
The Smithsonian MAH has been a worthless piece of leftist claptrap for many years now. The trend started in the 80's, accelerated in the 90's and was complete by the turn of the century.
Also, the new Museum of the American Indian is likewise an exercise in left-wing propaganda; the great and rich history of American tribes is largely ignored for the agenda of "consciousness-raising." On your next trip to the National Mall, you can skip this one as well.
I can just see the exhibits now:
Flava Flav's gold teeth
The bullet that killed Biggie Smalls
50 Cent's first "Coney Island Whitefish"
The Hall of Malt Liquor (Sponsoered by Colt '45)
Hall of Ho's
The Role of Bling-Bling in American culture
Busta Rhyme's Mac-10 collection
Run DMC: Hip-Hop Innovators or Christian Sellouts?
Ice-T or Ice Cube: The Rapper's Ice Age
Taking Advantage of the Dis-Advantaged: the History of Hip-Hop Marketing
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