Read complete books and articles on: Rap Music

Rap Music - or hip-hop, genre originating in the mid-1970s among black and Hispanic performers in New York City, at first associated with an athletic style of dancing, known as breakdancing. The word rap, derived from a 1960s slang word for conversation, generally consists of chanted, often improvised, street poetry accompanied by a montage of well-known recordings, usually disco or funk

13 of the Best Books and Articles on: Rap Music

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Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap » Read Now
by Eithne Quinn. 252 pgs.

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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, in Journal of Communication » Read Now
by Tricia Rose. 11 pgs.

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...Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America...out, Black Noise is a book about "Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America...between location...
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The Aesthetics of Rap, in African American Review » Read Now
by Mtume Ya Salaam. 14 pgs.

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...by Mtume ya Salaam After reading many articles supposedly concerning rap music - about the social aspects of rap music, the criminal elements in rap music, the lawsuits...
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Am I Black Enough for You?: Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond (Includes discussion of rap music in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Todd Boyd. 144 pgs.

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...several people make cursory mention of rap music, few fully explore its possibilities...African American oral expression e.g., rap music, basketball with critical...
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"How Ya Livin'?": Notes on Rap Music and Social Transformation, in The Western Journal of Black Studies » Read Now
by Anthony B. Pinn. 12 pgs.

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..."How Ya Livin?": Notes on Rap Music and Social Transformation(1...rights workers.(2) And most recently, rap music provides a discussion of contemporary...given to the two...
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Radical Rap: Does It Further Ethnic Division?, in Basic and Applied Social Psychology » Read Now
by Dolf Zillmann, Charles F. Aust, Kathleen D. Hoffman. 25 pgs.

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...genres of music for some time now. Contemporary rap music extends the indicated expressive traditions of African-American...some refusals to air particularly hostile...
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Much Respect: Toward a Hip-Hop Theory of Punishment, in Stanford Law Review » Read Now
by Paul Butler. 34 pgs.

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...States. (6) The culture transcends rap music: It includes television, movies...38) In the late 1980s, mainstream rap music took two divergent directions. Many...punishment...
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"Ladies First": Queen Latifah's Afrocentric Feminist Music Video, in African American Review » Read Now
by Robin Roberts. 13 pgs.

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...of men and women of letters" (90). Rap music videos provide a site to explore...radical of all, perhaps, are feminist rap music videos, because rap is perceived...and then...
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Predicting Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Gangsta Rap, in Basic and Applied Social Psychology » Read Now
by Christine Hall Hansen. 11 pgs.

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...from a brief exposure to "gangsta rap" music videos. Results from both experiments...that the social themes contained in rap music videos can produce potent and...
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Violent Attitudes and Deferred Academic Aspirations: Deleterious Effects of Exposure to Rap Music, in Basic and Applied Social Psychology » Read Now
by James D. Johnson, Lee Anderson Jackson, Leslie Gatto. 15 pgs.

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...Deleterious Effects of Exposure to Rap Music James D. Johnson, Lee Anderson...assess the effects of exposure to rap music on the attitudes and perceptions...Subjects were...
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Differential Gender Effects of Exposure to Rap Music on African American Adolescents' Acceptance of Teen Dating Violence, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by James D. Johnson, Mike S. Adams, Leslie Ashburn. 9 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Differential gender effects of exposure to rap music on African American adolescents acceptance...depictions and treatment of women in "rap music" lyrics and videos. Even...
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Stereotyping Effect of Black Women's Sexual Rap on White Audiences, in Basic and Applied Social Psychology » Read Now
by Su-Lin Gan, Dolf Zillmann, Michael Mitrook. 19 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Violent, and Misogynistic Language in Rap Music). Testimony focused on spiteful...use-and-discard objects, sexually enticing rap music can be seen as a celebration...
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Bleep! Censoring Rock and Rap Music » Read Now
by Betty Houchin Winfield, Sandra Dauidson. 132 pgs.

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Examining the various boundaries of American artistic tolerance, chapters address the societal and legal responses to rock and rap music. Artistic expression has historically clashed with mainstream views, resulting in apprehension acted upon internally and externally, especially when expression is...
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Examining the various boundaries of American artistic tolerance, chapters address the societal and legal responses to rock and rap music. Artistic expression has historically clashed with mainstream views, resulting in apprehension acted upon internally and externally, especially when expression is aimed toward children or young adults. This work studies the mass media content and programming in network television, Rolling Stone magazine, and the New York Times reviews and spot news concerning rock and rap music. The National Endowment for the Arts, the FCC, and the music industry's internal responses to parents and adults are discussed as well. Inhibitions and censoring, it is argued, stem from adult concerns for a healthy functioning society and from anxiety about the impact of sexual explicitness and uncontrolled behavioral expression on adolescents. This work attempts to explain why societal intolerance has a pattern of limiting the lyrics and sounds of rock and rap music.
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