Urban music

Musical genre of the 1980s and '90s defined by recordings by rhythm-and-blues or soul artists with broad crossover appeal. Urban contemporary began as an American radio format designed to appeal to advertisers who felt that "black radio" would not reach a wide enough audience. 

Post - Modernism

A late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”

Syncretism

The union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy).

Youth Subculture

A minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre.

Imperial

Ruling over extensive territories or over colonies or dependencies: imperial nations.

Colonialism

The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.


Post - Colonialism


An era or attitude relating to the period after the settlement of one country by another, or very broadly, after the 1960s, when many colonised countries gained their independence.

Hegemony

The dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others.

Representation

Refers to the construction in any medium (especially the mass media) of aspects of ‘reality’ such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and other abstract concepts. Such representations may be in speech or writing as well as still or moving pictures.

Mediation

A negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party.

Collective Identity

Refers to an individuals' sense of belonging (the identity) to a group (the collective). From the perspective of the individual, the collective identity forms a part of his or her personal identity.

Identity

1. the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
2. the characteristics determining who or what a person or thing is.

'Black Britain'

Black Britain - Charlotte Norman on Prezi