Source Criticism Of Two Articles About Hip Hop And Rap Music (Essay Sample)

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Source criticism
Introduction
Presently there is presence of large volume of information available on the internet; the World Wide Web exposes people to platform where anyone can publish anything. The available search tools such as Google match input content to their engine indexes to avail results without elaborating on concepts in them. Most of the published content is suppose to influence individuals, be source of entertainment, report or advocate for a business activity, news and personal.
Source criticism is based on four major principles and a single distinction. Authenticity affirms that information source is in real sense what it perceived to be. Relationship with time is concerned with the distance between events described in articles and books. Sources should be independent and be a copy of other existing material with un partisan sources.
The articles provided for this research on hip hop genre of music and rap music. The online article http://harvardpolitics.com/covers/evolution-rap/ argues that hip hop and has changed from what it used to be when their main content was community politics and states examples of artists to support statements. The article states time and includes direct quotes from Rauly Ramirez descriptions of occurrences. The literature account for events in relation to music with reliable references and structured time frame. Most of the supportive context comes from independent sources and are supported by key principles present during indicated times and places. This article is a blog with reputable platform and content hence reliable source.
Considering the other publication available at the quoted source, “https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rap”; it is written in Swedish language and the source is not reliable since Wikipedia is open source and any internet user can manipulate its content to serve personal interest. It defines rap from its origin and illustrates its major elements. It defines history and focus in occurrences in rap world in holistic structure. The content in this article is pure collection of history and most people referred to have died. It defines personalities in the rap genre in generalized context. The literature in this article talk about events which is relationship with time has long difference. The dependency upon the content is ineligible because the source information does not come from direct individuals but record of occurrences without concrete support. The arguments in does not support free tendency but roots rap music to west Africa The other article was purely concerned with hip hop and rap in united st...