Thesis: Although some may question Piper's technique,he was certainly successful in enlightening and creating dialogue between races through the use of funk music.
Piper's use of funk lessons enabled individuals to confront racial issues and accept cultural differences.
Topic Sentences:
Between the years of 1982 and 1984, Adrian Piper experimented with dialogic art by teaching white participants about black funk music.
By using this form of medium, Piper was able to discretely and gradually introduce racial topics of discussion.
Instead of lecturing to white participants, the funk lessions encouraged discussion and individual appreciation of the music cultural.
Although Piper had good intentions, the funk lessions embarrassed and offended middle class and college-educated blacks.
Today, the same experiement might not conjure up the same response as hip hop music is a more acceptable part of white culture.
Piper's funk lessons sought to discretly introduce whites to the black culture, therefore, resulting in more positive results.
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1- Adrian Piper is a woman
2- Was there any tension involved in this piece? In your 2nd thesis, you say Piper enabled people to confront racial issues, but HOW and what did it look like? Was it important that black people and white people had different responses?
3- Your analogy about hip hop being more a part of white culture now than funk was then is very interesting. On the other hand, if you imagine a room full of parents learning hiphop dancing, I'm sure there could be similar akwardness and education. I think it would help to do a little reserach on the history of funk. It was not mainstream, but it was certainly not so obscure. What if there were hiphop lessons for old people now?
Your assertion on this point allows the reader to jump to the conclusion that there would be no use to repeating the project because racism is gone, but it is not. Maybe the popularity of hip hop has allowed white people to THINK they understand all of black culture... when in fact it's just a small sample of it.
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