Essays about: "describe popular american culture"

Found 2 essays containing the words describe popular american culture.

1. 1. Why children are the better cooks and better people - How MasterChef Junior reinforces the 'taste of luxury and freedom', gives children high culinary capital and portrays them as having a multitude of positive characteristics

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Carolin Schmeh; [2014]
   Keywords : MasterChef Junior; Culinary capital; Taste of luxury and freedom; Food as art; Visual culture; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : In this paper I explore how the US-American competitive cooking show MasterChef Junior assigns its 8 to 13- year-old contestants with a notion of strength. In the first part of the paper I will demonstrate how the show constructs different categories of knowledge and values of food and food practices which I will define as soft and hard culinary capital. READ MORE

3. 2. "Not Perfect Grammar, Always Perfect Timing" : African American Vernacular English in Black and White Rap Lyrics

   University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Madeleine Magnusson; [2008]
   Keywords : AAVE; rap music; rap lyrics; hip hop music; Ebonics;

   Abstract : African American Vernacular English, AAVE, is a variant of English spoken mostly by lower-class black citizens in the US. Since the most popular music genre among African Americans today is rap, this paper will describe what characterizes AAVE and rap music, and explore the use of AAVE in rap lyrics of both black and white rappers. READ MORE