{"id":15341,"date":"2020-11-24T09:11:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T09:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/24\/average-homebody\/"},"modified":"2020-11-24T09:11:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T09:11:28","slug":"average-homebody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/24\/average-homebody\/","title":{"rendered":"average homebody"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h1>Lesson \u2013 Average Homeboy<\/h1>\n<h3>Average Homeboy: Rhetorical Situation<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canvas.eee.uci.edu\/courses\/17052\/files\/6372980\/preview\" alt=\"BlazePinkJacket.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, we\u2019ll be looking at our first low-stakes text cluster that we\u2019ll base our CR Exercises and RIP Exercises on. This is a video called \u201cAverage Homeboy.\u201d Here\u2019s a primer:\u00a0<a class=\"external\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/average-homeboy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/average-homeboy<span class=\"screenreader-only\">\u00a0(Links to an external site.)<\/span><span class=\"ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline\"><span class=\"screenreader-only\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of Knowyourmeme:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Average Homeboy<\/strong>\u00a0is a single demo tape created by\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dennyblaze.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denny Hazen<span class=\"screenreader-only\">\u00a0(Links to an external site.)<\/span><span class=\"ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline\"><span class=\"screenreader-only\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a>(a.k.a. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Denny Blaze\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) in the late 1980s. At the beginning of demo tape, he briefly introduces himself as an aspiring rapper hoping to market his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153average middle-class, white person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s point of view\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the rap music industry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canvas.eee.uci.edu\/courses\/17052\/files\/6373030\/preview\" alt=\"hazen triangle 1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the story of Average Homeboy didn\u2019t stop there. Much later, the story goes, someone in the MTV offices dug the tape out of a cardboard box where it had sat collecting dust for decades. It was uploaded to Youtube in 2006, and that was the start of its viral fame.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened can be seen as a shift in the rhetorical situation.\u00a0<\/strong>The shifted rhetorical elements are written in\u00a0<strong>purple<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canvas.eee.uci.edu\/courses\/17052\/files\/6373022\/preview\" alt=\"hazen triangle 2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With one shift\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwith the video\u2019s recovery and uploadment (is that a word?) to Youtube, many other parts of the rhetorical triangle have shifted. Note the interconnectedness of all of these parts! First of all, the audience has shifted. Now, the MTV executives that Denny Hazen intended to watch his video\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhis\u00a0<strong>intended audience<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhave been replaced with an\u00a0<strong>actual audience<\/strong>\u00a0of, well, anyone who wants to click onto Youtube and watch it. He probably didn\u2019t anticipate, for example, that a college instructor, thirty years later, would be using his rap demo tape to teach rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>So, the first thing to note is the difference between actual audiences and intended audiences. Audiences that the rhetor never anticipated or expected could consume and experience their text\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the way they receive it may NOT be how the rhetor wanted it to be received. Consider a man writing a letter to his mistress and having it intercepted by his wife. That new audience will have a very different reaction to his rhetoric than the one he was hoping for. In this way, we are Denny Hazen\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p>We can credit this audience shift to the shift in\u00a0<strong>venue,\u00a0<\/strong>of course. Denny Hazen in 1989 probably did not anticipate the advent of Youtube, a service that lets anyone watch a video any time they would like. The shift in\u00a0<strong>historical and cultural context<\/strong>\u00a0was something he would have had no way to know about or to prepare for.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s time to watch the video. While you do, I\u2019d like you to pay attention to (and take notes on) the following:<\/p>\n<p>-What is funny in this video?<\/p>\n<p>-What makes you uncomfortable?<\/p>\n<p>-Does Hazen come off as a good rapper? Why not?<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado: Average Homeboy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Average Homeboy: Response<\/h3>\n<p>Hazen\u2019s purpose for this video was PERSUASION: He wanted to persuade the MTV executives to give him a chance to launch a rap career. His message for this video, then, can be summed up in his own words from the introduction of the video:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully you can see [\u2026] how marketable it is. Hopefully you can help me get my big record contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OR:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should get a record contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Answer the following questions by replying to this discussion post:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>1. Is this humorous? Did he want it to be humorous? What makes it humorous?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>2. Are parts of this video insensitive, and\/or do they make you uncomfortable? Which parts, and why?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>3. Do you think this Hazen communicates his message successfully? Why or why not?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Focus: Historical and Cultural Context<\/h3>\n<p>One of Hazen\u2019s stated goals with this demo tape was to position his ability to fill a gap in 1980s Hip Hop music. According to Hazen, there wasn\u2019t a white rapper at the time who told the story of average, middle-class life.<\/p>\n<p>The way Hazen approaches this is far from careful. To understand this more fully, it\u2019s important to look at Historical and Cultural Context. In other words, what was rap like in the 1980s? What were attitudes toward race relations in the 1980s, and how might Hazen\u2019s rhetoric have been insensitive (contributing to its failure)?<\/p>\n<p>First, I\u2019d like to draw your attention to the following lines, which Hazen uses to open his demo:<\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m not the typical rapper that you\u2019ll meet<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t live in a box nor was I raised on the street<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And as you can see, I\u2019m not black<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t do drugs and I\u2019m not on crack<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What types of oppositions do these lyrics present, and why might those oppositions be problematic?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s run the video again. This time, consider the chart I\u2019ve filled out below with three columns: one representing how Hazen sees the black community, one representing how he presents himself, and one representing how he sees rich, upper-class whites, from which he also seeks to distinguish himself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canvas.eee.uci.edu\/courses\/17052\/files\/6372998\/preview\" alt=\"Hazen Chart 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canvas.eee.uci.edu\/courses\/17052\/files\/6373025\/preview\" alt=\"Hazen Chart 2\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Context of Race Relations in 1980s America<\/h4>\n<p>Denny Hazen\u2019s text did not exist in a vacuum. It was part of (and a response to) the world outside of it\u00e2\u20ac\u201cwhere events had been happening and trends had developed. If we zoom in on just one set of trends\/attitudes\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthose related to race relations in the United States\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe can start to see why Hazen\u2019s rhetoric was misguided.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you\u2019ve lived in a place (or through an era, or in a community) it can be hard to have a full working knowledge of that place\u2019s (or era\u2019s, or community\u2019s) context. So what do you do? You perform research and you find out what was going on, what people believed, what the trends were. Here, I\u2019ve performed that research for you. Let\u2019s talk about what aspects of historical context at this time would have come to bear on the way people perceived Hazen\u2019s lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canvas.eee.uci.edu\/courses\/17052\/files\/6373031\/preview\" alt=\"suburbs.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WHITE FLIGHT: In the 1950s and 1960s, as legal segregation between blacks and whites was being abolished in the United States, a lot of white Americans (frightened of the prospect of having to live in a multiracial neighborhood\/society) fled the cities to live in the suburbs. This was known as \u201cwhite flight.\u201d Idyllic images of happy suburban life from this period hide a dark undercurrent\u00e2\u20ac\u201done of intentional racial separation. Hazen talks about how he\u2019s not \u201cfrom the projects\u201d and his own house appears to sit in a suburban area. As a result of this trend, urban populations became increasingly black.<\/p>\n<p>INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM: Legal segregation had ended, but urban populations of color were still discriminated against in numerous ways. These disadvantages resulted in higher rates of poverty and, arguably, gang membership and drug use. Governmental solutions (like the housing projects referenced by Hazen) sprung up in response.<\/p>\n<p>CRACK COCAINE: Hazen says that he\u2019s \u201cnot on crack.\u201d The way he constructs his lyrics seems to use parallelism to conflate crack usage with blackness. In the 1980s, crack cocaine was a drug epidemic and was being funneled primarily into black communities. At the time, crack was seen as a \u201cblack problem,\u201d and was a problem that ravaged inner city communities of color.<\/p>\n<p>FUNCTION OF RAP MUSIC IN AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES: You\u2019ll read an article about this for homework. According to intellectuals in African-American communities at the time, rap music served a cathartic function of storytelling and rebellion. With the perception that white Americans had subjugated them for centuries and were continuing to treat them as sub-human, rap music allowed a creative outlet to deliver narratives and calls to action.<\/p>\n<p>Does Hazen seem aware of this context? What are the ramifications if he doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p>For homework, you\u2019re going to be asked to rewrite Hazen\u2019s lyrics to try and account for Historical and Cultural Context more effectively. You\u2019ll read an article on the importance of rap music in African American communities at this time, and try to make Hazen\u2019s message more effective by making it more sensitive to Cultural Context.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/orders\/ordernow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTyj99p60XCLyLk1htB7-1neRt8-2QdnenNlQ&usqp=CAU\"target=\"_http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/orders\/ordernow\"\/><\/center><p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson \u2013 Average Homeboy Average Homeboy: Rhetorical Situation Today, we\u2019ll be looking at our first low-stakes text cluster that we\u2019ll base our CR Exercises and RIP Exercises on. This is a video called \u201cAverage Homeboy.\u201d Here\u2019s a primer:\u00a0http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/average-homeboy\u00a0(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. 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