The Resource "It's bigger that hip hop" : popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation, by Derek Evans, (electronic resource)
"It's bigger that hip hop" : popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation, by Derek Evans, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- A number of authors and supporters of hip hop culture have suggested that rap music has the potential to serve as a vehicle for the next stage of the Civil Rights Movement. However, the extent to which rap music has addressed political issues important to post-Civil Rights Black Americans, or the "Hip Hop Generation", has gone unexamined. This study attempts to do that by first determining which political issues are most important to this group and, then, analyzing the extent to which the most popular rap songs - those heard by the largest audiences - have addressed those issues. Results show that popular rap music in its first years as a popular musical form and in present years fails to address these political issues to any significant degree, though in past years popular rap music addressed these themes with slightly greater frequency. Suggestions are given for why this decrease occurred and for why there exists such a dearth of political rap music in all of the years from which songs were sampled. Lastly, the implications of the widespread existence of rap that does not address issues important to the Hip Hop Generation are provided
- Language
- eng
- Note
-
- The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file
- Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 25, 2008)
- Label
- "It's bigger that hip hop" : popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation
- Title
- "It's bigger that hip hop"
- Title remainder
- popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation
- Statement of responsibility
- by Derek Evans
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A number of authors and supporters of hip hop culture have suggested that rap music has the potential to serve as a vehicle for the next stage of the Civil Rights Movement. However, the extent to which rap music has addressed political issues important to post-Civil Rights Black Americans, or the "Hip Hop Generation", has gone unexamined. This study attempts to do that by first determining which political issues are most important to this group and, then, analyzing the extent to which the most popular rap songs - those heard by the largest audiences - have addressed those issues. Results show that popular rap music in its first years as a popular musical form and in present years fails to address these political issues to any significant degree, though in past years popular rap music addressed these themes with slightly greater frequency. Suggestions are given for why this decrease occurred and for why there exists such a dearth of political rap music in all of the years from which songs were sampled. Lastly, the implications of the widespread existence of rap that does not address issues important to the Hip Hop Generation are provided
- Cataloging source
- MUU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1981-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Evans, Derek
- Degree
- M.A.
- Dissertation year
- 2007.
- Granting institution
- University of Missouri-Columbia
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- theses
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Pearce, Tola Olu
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Rap (Music)
- Hip-hop
- Popular culture
- African American arts
- Civil rights movements
- Target audience
- specialized
- Label
- "It's bigger that hip hop" : popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation, by Derek Evans, (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file
- Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 25, 2008)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 214051391
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Form of item
- electronic
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)214051391
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- "It's bigger that hip hop" : popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation, by Derek Evans, (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file
- Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 25, 2008)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 214051391
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Form of item
- electronic
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)214051391
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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