Andrew Hoberek famous quotes

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
-- Andrew Hoberek

#Art #Culture #Entertainment

Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.
-- Andrew Hoberek

#Rap #Artist #Order

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.
-- Andrew Hoberek

#Art #Thinking #Goal

Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings, both rose by dint of hard work and talent to wealth and success. Jay embraces this role, styling himself as much a CEO as an artist, and he and Beyoncé have become, in a significant way, more fully America's first couple than their friends the Obamas.
-- Andrew Hoberek

#Dream #Couple #Hard Work

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.