BACKGROUND

Our digital artefact is an Instagram page and a YouTube channel titled ‘Textbook Recipes’. The aim of this was to find places in Wollongong to review one item on the menu, then recreate this by buying the items and creating a recipe, to demonstrate a recipe on a uni budget. The three posts made to Instagram per food item would be a review of the bought item, the ingredients and the final product with the money saved. Then a video would be posted to YouTube of how to make it as based off the format of Buzzfeed tasty videos.

PROTOTYPE

Two posts so far have been made, eggs benedict and sushi, due to the difficulties of getting the group together and the time it takes to produce content.

The eggs benedict was successful due to the viewership received on Instagram with likes and comments positively made.

The sushi, however was not as successful as shown by the feedback given on Instagram in regards to the cost of all the ingredients and time taken to make it. In addition to this, the sushi video was only made by one person and with poor lighting, making the filming quality harder to maintain.

ITERATING

Based on my reflections, we have decided to iterate my process by making videos the following way:

1. Making a video every three weeks – time taken to make the video and our availability needs to be more realistic
2. Has to be made with all three members – limited resources, one person needs to film, the others make the food and clean up as we film
3. During the day – due to lack of professional lighting, the lighting needs to be during the day in order to gain better video quality
4. Choose recipes with cost disparity to show that it is a lot cheaper and faster to make at home – the audience won’t be confused by the initial high price of purchasing the ingredients and the actual cost used in the recipes

WHERE TO FROM HERE

We already have a third post coming along for Churros, whereby we have gone to the location and know the cost disparity, making sure when it comes to filming, we follow the above. Furthermore, we will need to redo the sushi video in order to get the best quality.

When looking at the music genre of British Grime, it’s interesting how it lends itself to a certain form of hybridization. This is mostly through other genres of music, influencing the development of Grime. The core genre of this music is electronic dance, which has been influence by hip hop, ragga, jungle, UK garage and dancehall. All of these genres have their own historical development from around the world, which is broken down below:

• Hip hop stems from the United states developing from African Americans and Latino Americans
• Ragga is a subgenre of reggae and dancehall music, originating from Jamaica in the 1980s
• Jungle music derives itself from the 1990s Bristol and London as a part of the UK rave scenes
• UK garage is a genre of electronic music, which originated in England in the 1990s emerging from styles such as R&B and dance-pop
• Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music, which began in the latter half of the 1970s

This demonstrates the level of hybridization of one single type of music, blending several cultures. Several countries have influenced British Grime, with British grime influencing several countries. The international growth of Grime can be seen through the introduction of Australian grime with artists such as Fraksha, Chinese grime with artists such as Naaah and Alta, Japanese grime with man Japanese DJs playing grime music from the UK and New Zealand grime. This shows the Globalisation of the genre of music, through its popularity stemming from the UK.

Representation  

As mentioned by Adams, Grime has become a vehicle for expressions of identity, particularly in postcolonial UK. Furthermore, it particularly looks at the experiences of working-class urban youth and the socio-linguistic backgrounds. It also doesn’t preclude to any particular white or ethnic identification, rather it becomes a form of cultural blending.

An example of this is the artist Wiley, who is currently one of the central figures in Grime. His experiences growing up in London, influenced his music. The background of his dad as a reggae artists and the house music and hip hop he would listen to at parties when he was younger. This demonstrates how his background and culture has influenced his predominantly grime music.

Although representation of grime has received some criticism in terms of racism, in the article The Village Voice Chang made commentary ongrime artist Dizzee Rascal’s lyrics. In this he said the often violent and sexual nature of his lyrics are used to capture the life that many grime artists witness on the streets in everyday life. This demonstrates the use of the lyrics to represent this cultural background.

Cultural appropriation

Although there is some controversy with many of the genres included within grime, grime is generally seen to be all-inclusive, not being limited by class or race. In a sense, it represents the city’s social cohesion and inclusiveness irrespective of colour, class, income or gender.

I find it very interesting how global Grime in fact is. It is not easy to see on surface level but it is extremely unique in the fact that it grew out of something so specific as out of London working class scene, to become such a global, inclusive style of music.

-EADIE