Mod West ISU Essay Just as the vinyl records on a DJ's turntable turn round and round, so does the cycle of modern trends. It moves from extremes, from one pole to another. On one side is realism, the ideas of reason and science, represented by such movements as the enlightenment and realism. On the other side are the ideas of fantasy, the ideas of dreams and the ethereal, represented by such movements like impressionism …showed first 75 words of 2084 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2084 total…world over. People took a new pride in who and what they were. In the words of Mos Def, "It's a lot of things goin on y'all / 21st century is comin / 20th century almost done / A lot of things have changed / . . . mainly us / We gon' get it together right? I believe that /"Yo Mos, what's gettin ready to happen with Hip-Hop?" / I tell em, "You know what's gonna happen with Hip-Hop? / Whatever's happening with us"