by admin | Apr 14, 2006 | Hip-hop, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm
In the article “Keepin’ It Real–Black Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and Black Identity” author Andreana Clay expands on the concept of “cultural capital” elucidated by Bourdieu by analyzing how black youth use hip-hop to authenticate...
by admin | Apr 2, 2006 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Hip-hop, Pop Culture
I read a couple of pieces dealing specifically with gangsta rap. The first, Nothin’ but a “G” thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap by Eithne Quinn and the second is an article from Social Text using gangsta rap as a way to interrogate...
by admin | Mar 24, 2006 | Hip-hop, things that make you go hmm |
What are the central issues, problems, I need to grapple with here? 1. How does hip-hop influence the political attitudes of youth? We know that hip-hop is an information source. Chuck D. even called it “black America’s CNN” although it’d now...
by admin | Mar 24, 2006 | Hip-hop, things that make you go hmm |
In my search for empirically based literature on hip-hop I found an article that deals with the change in content of hip-hop lyrics over time. I’ve wanted to do something like this, and started a bit of it a while back, but this is the first article I’ve...
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