HUM 100 Mod 6 Short Answer
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Identify a creator
from the twentieth or twenty-first century who you think made an important contribution to art and culture in the form of cultural works that impacted society.
The creator I decided on is Tupac Shakur (2pac). Tupac was most known for his rap career, but he was also known as an actor and activist. He released his first out of eleven studio albums in November 1991. Shakur unfortunately died at 25 in 1996.
Describe
one of the cultural works
they created and the medium. Mediums can include dance, literature, sculpture, visual arts, architecture, music, performance, and so forth.
The cultural work I have decided to focus on of 2Pac's is his song "Keep ya Head up ."The song was released in 1993 on Pac's second studio album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. This song was to pay tribute to his mother and the women around him. This song talks about black women's struggle while raising kids alone. He also touches on how black men should start protecting their (black) women. Lyrics that stand out are " And since we all came from a woman, got our name from a woman and our game from a woman. I wonder why we take from our women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women". Followed by, "Time to heal our women, be real to our women, and if we don't, we'll have a race of babies That will hate the ladies that make the babies. And since a man can't create one, he has no right to tell a
woman when and where to create one." These lines are iconic to this song because of the powerful message being delivered.
What
questions about human culture
does this work prompt?
Why are black women not respected? Why do songs like this even have to be made to send a strong message? And why hasn't much change been made towards the black culture in this way? These are all questions about human culture this song poses.
What
big questions
do you think influenced the cultural work you selected? Consider addressing how this connects with the larger human need to express.
Think the big question that influenced "keep ya head up" is: Why do black men not value the very thing that gives them life? It connects to the human's larger need to express themselves because of self-reflection of the things he, as the artist, has done and seen. I think it played on the conscious, and it felt like a relief to say those words out loud. Tupac had to ask himself and his peers the very question he asked in the song, and music is what he used to express that.
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