Author: Mansi Garneni Columbia University Download PDF version “Made a mil’ off that, uh/ Off that mumblin’ shit.” – Playboi Carti, “R.I.P.” INTRODUCTION: THE QUESTION OF MUMBLE RAP Mumble rap is a polarizing topic within the rap community...
Author: Shawn Driscoll University of Massachusetts – Lowell Download PDF version Television shows provide a never-ending cycle of heroes and villains. The symbiotic relation between these two sides becomes both necessary and at times frustrating. Necessary for the connection...
Download PDF version “If someday a tourist notices, among the ruins of New York City, a copy of Leaves of Grass, and stops and picks it up and reads some lines in it, she will be able to say...
Author: Sreepurna Datta Jadavpur University Download PDF version In his 1993 book American Political Cultures, Richard Ellis identified “voting in competitive elections, representative government, accountable leadership, and the freedom to pursue one’s own private interests,” as the key features...
Author: Elizabeth Laughlin Indiana University of Pennsylvania Download PDF version Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) feels like revisiting an old memory. Those who appreciated the 2012 version of Red will especially love this one, which is revised and features...
Author: Raja Ambika The English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad, India) Download PDF version Based on the complaints of two female correspondents, Richard Steele, in “Letter 155” written for The Spectator (2012), brings readers’ attention to the fact that...
Download PDF version “For the writers of my generation, literary influences are longer the only thing that we base our books on. There are other platforms, like TV series, comics, etc. In my case, music is one of the principal...
Author: Max Tretter Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg Download PDF version INTRODUCTION Originating in the United States, rap music and the culture of hip hop are closely connected with America.[1] As hip hop’s place of origin, the US has a lasting...
Author: Katerina Psilopoulou Newnham College, University of Cambridge Download PDF version Whenever European directors attempt to capture the essence of America, the result can be either grotesque or revelatory, especially during volatile times like the counterculture movement of the...
Download PDF version In popular culture, the term ‘Orwellian’ has come to be known as that which describes instances of the dystopic milieu in George Orwell’s final novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. This seminal text, which presents a vision of a...
