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Kitwana, Bakari. The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture. New York: Basic Civitas, 2002. Print. This book talks about how rap has negatively influenced young black kids. I think that this book is very important because this is a bit of a problem in the black community and I think that it needs to be addressed. Although hip-hop has positive factors, it has a lot of negative factors that deal with not only blacks, but all races. This book discusses a lot of important issues, and I think it provides a lot of good information.

Charles, Marilyn, and Karen Telis. "Pattern as Inspiration and Mode of Communication in the Works of Van Gogh." American Journal of Psychoanalysis 69.3 (2009): 238-262. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 31 Oct. 2010. In "Pattern as Inspiration and Mode of Communication in the works of Van Gogh" it talks about how his black and white paintings still convey meaning. Van Gogh is an impressionist and has the talent of using line and shapes in order to evoke an emotional response. Van Gogh was interested in ideas rather than images, which inspired many of his pieces of work. The history of his life is shown and describes who he is and his work. In the beginning of his life Gogh did not know he wanted to be an artist, but later traveled and studied art.

Charles, Marilyn, and Karen Telis. "Pattern as Inspiration and Mode of Communication in the Works of Van Gogh." American Journal of Psychoanalysis 69.3 (2009): 238-262. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 31 Oct. 2010. In "Pattern as Inspiration and Mode of Communication in the works of Van Gogh" it talks about how his black and white paintings still convey meaning. Van Gogh is an impressionist and has the talent of using line and shapes in order to evoke an emotional response. Van Gogh was interested in ideas rather than images, which inspired many of his pieces of work. The history of his life is shown and describes who he is and his work. In the beginning of his life Gogh did not know he wanted to be an artist, but later traveled and studied art.

The article goes into to deep detail on the roots of the heav metal movement. Now a mainstream and global culture heavy metal has its roots in the industrial, working-class neighborhoods of post war Birmingham. The youth of Birmingham started drifting away from it's normal ties to the Protestent Church and began seeking their own forms of entertainment. As this went on two of the pioneers of heavy metal were formed in Black Sabbath and Judas Priest. This article shows the link between the geography of Birmingham neighborhoods and the birth of heavy metal.

Waddell, Ray. "Legendary Ozzy Osbourne." Billboard 121.44 (2009): 46-53. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. This article tells the whole story of Ozzy. From his fall as the lead singer of Black Sabbath. To his rise as the prince of darkness and founder of Ozzfest. It tells of how his future wife Sharon pulls him from the dark whole of drugs and alchol and made him into one of the biggest shows the world has ever seen.

Thompson, Krista. "The Sound of Light: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of Hip-Hop." Art Bulletin 91.4 (2009): 481-505. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.\n\nThis article dives into the effect of hip hop and it culture. It shows the influence of hip hop on music videos, clothing, art, and everything else. It focuses the influence of hip hop on black youth.

Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Poisen, Megadeth, Slayer: Few forms of music elicit such visceral reactions as does heavy metal. Embraced by millions of fans and denounced by critics for corrupting youth and even blamed for inciting suicide, murder, and Satanism. Weinstein argues that these fears stem from a deep misunderstanding of the culture of metal. She interprets all aspects of the metal world and in process unravels myths, misconceptions, and truths of metal subculture.

Gosa, Travis. "Hip-Hop Politics, Activism, and the Future of Hip-Hop It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation by Asante, Molefi K. All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by McWhorter, John H. The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk.." Journal of Popular Music Studies 21.2 (2009): 240-246. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article really deals with the politics of hip-hop. It deals with how rap is growing and how it's only going to get bigger as time goes on. This article is very important because there are a lot of poilitics involved in hip-hop. This article deals a lot with the culture of hip-hop as well. I thnk that this is a very good article.

Charles, Marilyn, and Karen Telis. "Pattern as Inspiration and Mode of Communication in the Works of Van Gogh." American Journal of Psychoanalysis 69.3 (2009): 238-262. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. This articles is a close study of specific patterning in Van Gogh's drawings. It is able to provide new insight into patterns he uses. Due to a direct expression of nonverbal meaning. The article takes a look at his articulation of pattern through form, plus a close reading of the letters he wrote about the difficulties he encountered because of his unique vision. It concludes that Van Gogh's unique and personal perceptual style served his developmental needs. While also contributing to both his mental instability and his artistic greatness.

Charles, Marilyn, and Karen Telis. "Pattern as Inspiration and Mode of Communication in the Works of Van Gogh." \n American Journal of Psychoanalysis 69.3 (2009): 238-262. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 31 Oct. 2010. In "Pattern as Inspiration and Mode of Communication in the works of Van Gogh" it talks about how his black and white paintings still convey meaning. Van Gogh is an impressionist and has the talent of using line and shapes in order to evoke an emotional response. Van Gogh was interested in ideas rather than images, which inspired many of his pieces of work. The history of his life is shown and describes who he is and his work. In the beginning of his life Gogh did not know he wanted to be an artist, but later traveled and studied art.

Royal, Leslie E. "Hip Hop On Top." Black Enterprise 30.12 (2000): 91. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article talks about how hip hops external effect. They have even changed clothes what people wear. These rappers have worn these clothes so now the young population wears it. Some of the clothes referred to were Sean John and Southpole clothing lines. It is more of an urban type of clothing.

Ingrassia, Michele and Biddle, Nina Archer. "The color of Barbie". Newsweek. 16 January 1995. Authors Ingrassia and Biddle, discuss how the '70s and earlier decades brought color in to fashion. In particular, the color pink. It's hard not to notice that in fashion today the color black is most prevailent followed by brown. Designers have began to incorporate patters with colors based on looks from the '70s and '60s. This article will help me discuss the influence of not only patterns and designs from the '70s but also now colors.