3/6/2024 0 Comments Graffiti wildstyle nHip-hop, a term encompassing rap, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti emerged as ghetto expression' for the poor, urban youth of the city, which really came into its own in the 1980's. This project is concerned with a specific genre of graffiti that emerged in the late 1960's/early 1970's in New York City - a phenomenon known as the hip-hop graffiti movement: a complex, highly formulated way of imprinting the urban landscape. Therefore, throughout this project when I use the term graffiti, it will mean writing. Iz the Wiz, a writer explains that "graffiti is some social term that was developed (for the culture) somewhere in the 70's" (Writing From The Style Underground 6). It should be asserted here that many graffiti writers do not call their work graffiti, but rather writing. Graffiti has become a prominent force in urban settings in the late 20th century and mention of the word conjures up many different images in people's minds - is it art or is it vandalism? a cause of the urban decay or a product from it? The scope of attitudes towards graffiti is wide and controversial. Graffiti - the term comes from both the Greek term "Graphein" meaning 'to write' and the word 'graffiti' is plural of the Italian word "Graffito" meaning 'scratch' and its history can be dated back to prehistoric cave man wall drawings, it can be seen as a human 'need' for communication - "Graffiti represents man's desire to communicate" (Wechsler vi). "Graffiti writers are the Urban Shamans and the streets are our modernĭay caves" CRAYONE (Walsh 3) INTRODUCTION All you know is that we run the world and you don't.' So the children painted their graffiti on the bottom of these blank walls even as an infant will scream when a family silence is too prolonged." The blank walls said: 'you will never know enough to find out what goes on inside. These buildings deadened one's mood as one walked by them. "For decades, America, all-uncaring, had been blinding its' children with the tall, blank walls, of corporate buildings. Or a cause of the urban decay of New York City and did graffiti fulfil its Specifically, the project seeks to ask was graffiti a product Implications on the urban landscape of New York City, the resistance from theĭominant culture, the changing face of graffiti, where graffiti stands now and It will explore the 'ghetto expression' of street hip-hop culture, its Within a social-cultural-political whole using various media including personal This project will discuss the history of graffiti Will follow graffiti's development from its emergence in the late sixties/early Graffiti (especially subway graffiti) which emerged in New York City. This project seeks to explore the sub-cultural youth phenomenon of hip-hop Graffiti in the '90's - The End of an Urban Phenomenon? Representing the Females - Women in Graffitiĥ.ğrom Underground to Overground - The Writing On Gallery WallsĦ. The Emergence of Graffiti in New York CityĢ. PAMELA DENNANT VALLEY UNIVERSITY (LONDON)ĪMERICAN STUDIES PROJECT 1997 CONTENTS Introductionġ. Pamela Dennant: URBAN EXPRESSION URBAN EXPRESSION.
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