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Most of the modifiers have been removed from the following passage from Hip Hop Planet
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Most of the modifiers have been removed from the following passage from Hip Hop Planet by James McBride. Not since the advent of jazz in the 1930s has an American music exploded across the world with force. Not since the Beatles invaded America and Elvis packed up his shoes has a music crashed against the world with outrage. The culture of song, graffiti, and dance, known as hip hop, has ripped music from its moorings in society it has permeated. Read the paragraph aloud, and listen to its cadence (the combination of the texts rhythm with the rise and fall in the inflection of the speakers voice). Add the following modifiers: blue, overwhelming, suede, swing, such, defiant, popular, every, collectively. Use them to improve the paragraphs effectiveness. Compare your version to the original (see para. 7, p. 789). Discuss the rhetorical effect of the modifiers in this passage.
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Most of the modifiers have been removed from the following passage from Hip Hop Planet by James McBride. Not since the advent of jazz in the 1930s has an American music exploded across the world with force. Not since the Beatles invaded America and Elvis packed up his shoes has a music crashed against the world with outrage. The culture of song, graffiti, and dance, known as hip hop, has ripped music from its moorings in society it has permeated. Read the paragraph aloud, and listen to its cadence (the combination of the texts rhythm with the rise and fall in the inflection of the speakers voice). Add the following modifiers: blue, overwhelming, suede, swing, such, defiant, popular, every, collectively. Use them to improve the paragraphs effectiveness. Compare your version to the original (see para. 7, p. 789). Discuss the rhetorical effect of the modifiers in this passage.
ANSWER:Not since the advent of blue jazz in the 1930s has such an overwhelming American music exploded across the world with such force. Not since the Beatles invaded America in their suede shoes and Elvis packed up his swing has a defiant music crashed against the world with outrage. The popular culture of song, graffiti, and dance, collectively