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Vilification of rap - 9 views

cct.georgetown.edu/...AutumnLewis.pdf

rap lyrics metaphor

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A Master's Thesis about media and public perceptions of rap during its entire history

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Rap News Network - Hip-Hop News: Rap's Social Conscience - 5 views

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rap lyrics Grandmaster_Flash

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Two of the most important contributions, though, were those made by the aforementioned Grandmaster Flash, along with the Furious Five, and Afrika Bambaataa. Bambaataa was, aside from rapping, was a social activist. He had formed the Zulu Nation in the 1970s, and brought the Nation's emphasis on knowledge and social awareness to rap. Bambaataa was one of the first to incorporate politics into his music - he sampled Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and others into his music. Bambaataa also pioneered the use of other types of music into rap; he sampled the electronic group Kraftwerk in "Planet Rock", and called the sound
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YouTube - American Samoa - Football Island p.1(HQ) - 3 views

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Annotated Bibliography on literature, cognition, and the brai - 1 views

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reading emotion brain suspension_of_disbelief

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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/art_holland06.shtml - 9 views

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Knight, Robert T. and Marcia Grabowecky. "Escape from Linear Time: Prefrontal Cortex and Conscious Experience." The Cognitive Neurosciences. Ed. Michael S. Gazzaniga. Cambridge MA: MIT P, 1995. 1357-71.
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Lisa Stewart on 29 Sep 10

Answers the question: how do literature and film cause real emotions in us in response to things that aren't real? This is the script of a speech, so it is a fairly easy read with lots of information.

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N. N. Holland's Seminar, The Brain and the Book: Description - 2 views

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James Pennebaker's research papers - 7 views

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Ryan Catalani on 29 Sep 10

Pennebaker (psychologist, linguist at University of Texas) seems to focus on connections between language and social interactions.

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The largest whorfian study EVER! (and why it matters) - 0 views

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Ryan Catalani on 28 Sep 10

Examining the results and methodology of a large Whorfian study (17 languages), which tested differences if there are differences in cognition between speakers of verb-frame languages (like Spanish, if the "Path is characteristically represented in the main verb or verb root of a sentence") and satellite-frame languages (like English, if the path is "characteristically represented in the satellite and/or preposition"). Important conclusion regarding study methodology: "Strong claims regarding the (in)validity of the Whorfian hypothesis in the encoding of motion events cannot be made on the basis of a limited number of languages or a restricted range of manner and path contrasts." They could have reached opposite conclusions if they only compared certain language pairs. This is made in contrast with studies by, e.g., Boroditsky, which had relatively small sample sizes.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Examining the results and methodology of a large Whorfian study (17 languages), which tested differences if there are differences in cognition between speakers of verb-frame languages (like Spanish, if the "Path is characteristically represented in the main verb or verb root of a sentence") and satellite-frame languages (like English, if the path is "characteristically represented in the satellite and/or preposition"). Important conclusion regarding study methodology: "Strong claims regarding the (in)validity of the Whorfian hypothesis in the encoding of motion events cannot be made on the basis of a limited number of languages or a restricted range of manner and path contrasts." They could have reached opposite conclusions if they only compared certain language pairs. This is made in contrast with studies by, e.g., Boroditsky, which had relatively small sample sizes.</div>

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Language Log: The dissing of hiphop linguistics - 6 views

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Jingles In Advertisements: Can They Improve Recall?, Wanda T. Wallace - 12 views

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brain memory pattern music song_lyrics advertisements

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In contrast to the above approaches, the current paper wakes a strong cognitive approach and considers how and when music might serve as a recall aid. Some experiments supporting this view are presented. Music in this paper will be primarily lyrical music rather than background or nonvocal music.
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Music provides a very powerful retrieval cue. Music is more than just an additional piece of information, it is an integrated cue that provides information about the nature of the text. The music defines the length of lines, chunks words and phrases, identifies the number of syllables, sets the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables within the text. Thus, the music acts as a frame within which the text is tightly fit. That frame can connect words at encoding, limit retrieval search, as well as constrain guessing or recreation at retrieval.
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Learning a Song: an ACT_R Model - 12 views

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a bit technical but the introduction is useful

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How Do Different Types of Music Affect Memory Recall? - 29 views

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although a work in progress, it's useful for its annotated bibliography

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"Philosophy of Film" - 1 views

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Evening Music: Ear to Ear: Benjamin Bagby - WNYC - 2 views

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BeowulfTranslations.net: Start Page - 1 views

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beowulf old_english anglo-saxon

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Why the Brain Doubts a Foreign Accent: Scientific American - 3 views

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Ryan Catalani on 25 Sep 10

"Non-native accents make speech somewhat more difficult for native speakers to parse and thereby reduces "cognitive fluency" - i.e., the ease with which the brain processes stimuli. And this, they found, causes people to doubt the accuracy of what is said. "...[However,] several recent studies suggest that modest disruptions of cognitive fluency - cases of cognitive "disfluency," if you will - prompt people to think critically."

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'Lost' language discovered on back of letter - Telegraph - 1 views

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"We discovered a language no one has seen or heard since the 16th or 17th century," Mr Quilter said, adding that the language appears to have been influenced by Quechua, an ancient tongue still spoken by millions of people across the Andes.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"We discovered a language no one has seen or heard since the 16th or 17th century," Mr Quilter said, adding that the language appears to have been influenced by Quechua, an ancient tongue still spoken by millions of people across the Andes. </div>

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