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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"hip hop culture"”.
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We got the power : Asian Americans and hip-hop culture in the Bay Area
… how Asian Americans of the Bay Area engage hip-hop culture as fans and artists. This is a historiography of Asian Americans participating in Bay Area hip-hop culture that has been masked or hidden. I have devised a methodology less reliant on archival materials (i.e., vinyl records and …
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Blackness and Periphery: A Retelling of Marginality in Hip -Hop Culture of Sao Paulo, Brazil
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: QuickTime; Flash Player.
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Now I Speak: The African American Males' Perspective as to Whether His Identification with Hip-Hop Culture Affects His Academic Achievement
… of whether his identification with the hip-hop culture affects his academic achievement. Many Black males have embraced the popular culture of hip-hop with its glamour and style, but many also continue to fall behind in school or dropout. The use of qualitative analysis allows the …
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Performing Ethnographic Inquiry into America's Black Youth Culture: The Impact of Hip Hop and Rap Music on Today's Youth Society
… ethnographic inquiry into America's black youth culture. It is an exploration of how the "hip hop culture" influences black youth culture. Drawing on the works of Rose (1994a, 1994b), Dimitriadis (2001), and Kitwana (2002), I explored impact of the hip hop culture in the areas of fashion, …
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The Beautiful Struggle: an Analysis of Hip Hop Icons, Archetypes, and Aesthetics
Hip hop reached its thirty-fifth year of existence in 2008. Hip hop has indeed evolved into a global phenomenon. This dissertation is grounded in Afro-modern, Afrocentric and African-centered theory and utilizes textual and content analysis. This dissertation offers a panoramic view of pre-hip hop …
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Tale of two cultures: Hip-hop and schooling and the impact on African American identity and academic achievement
<p>This study examines the relationship between black identity, hip hop culture and relevance to the schooling of black youth through an analysis of existing literature and more so, African American youths sense of these connections. In so doing, it analyzes the various ways in facilitating black …
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The Transformative Nature of Altered States of Consciousness in Youth Subculture
… common to the human condition that exist across cultures, belief systems and appear in both religious and secular literature. These experiences can hold profound meaning to the individuals that hold them and cause tremendous shifts in perspective, connection to the self or others and awakening. …
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One Love : Collective Consciousness in Rap and Poetry of the Hip-Hop Generation
This study aims to offer an understanding of hip-hop culture through which three concepts are elucidated: (1) the existence and dimensions of a collective consciousness within rap and poetry of the hip-hop generation (Allison Joseph, A. Van Jordan, Terrance Hayes, Major Jackson, Taylor Mali, and …
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"We ain't terrorists, but we droppin' bombs": Language use and localization of hip hop in Egypt
In this thesis I explore the localization of hip hop in the context of Egypt. I examine the process of localization in terms of the content (issues and topics), forms (language forms) and musical styles that are used in the cases of four Egyptian groups, MTM, Arabian Knightz, Y-Crew and Asfalt. I …
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The Lopez Effect Remixed: The Significance of Mattering Through a Hip-Hop Lens in Education and Beyond
… traditional and non-traditional spaces through a Hip-hop lens. When mattering is applied to marginalized groups, it centers them to a certain extent. In my dissertation, I examine how Dr. Nadia Lopez, the former principal of junior high school, Mott Hall Bridges Academy (MHBA), employed mattering …
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Cash rules everything around me: the high price of sustaining hip-hop community in Chicago
… Me (CREAM): The High Price of Sustaining a Hip-Hop Community in Chicago,” contributes to the literature on hip-hop and culture by providing an ethnographic study on the various ways that those who defined themselves as being hip-hop go about constructing this identity in light of the unique …
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Allusions of grandeur : figurative language use in rap lyrics
… that is often taken for granted in studies of hip-hop culture. It is also important for the culture because the so-named “Hip-hop Nation” is a community constituted by communicative action and is now a global phenomenon. According to Fiske (1987), intertextuality is “the understanding of a …
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Homegirl Going Home: Hip Hop Feminism and the Representational Politics of Location
… lived experience of Black women who comprise the hip hop generation, or the post-civil rights generation for persons of color born between 1965-1984 (Kitwana, 2002, p. xiii). The researcher employs a three-part research design, which includes autoethnography, a series of textual analyses, and a …
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Stepping your game up : technical innovation among young people of color in hip-hop
Hip-hop is a competitive form of popular culture characterized by an on-going process of aesthetic renewal and reproduction that is expressed through carefully selected media and communications technologies. Hip-hop is also a segment of the pop music industry that manufactures a wide range of …
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Hip-Hop and Cultural Interactions: South Korean and Western Interpretations
… often questions of hybridity in every aspect of culture from fashion and music to language and religion. The ethnocentric view often parroted by the American public is that the rest of the world is simply trying to mimic the American way of life and failing (Pieterse 2001:225). This study argues …
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Explicit Content: Hip Hop, Feminism, and the Black Woman
… thought to analyze the messages in contemporary hip hop music. Grounded theory was chosen to create an unbiased setting that allowed the themes to emerge rather than looking for specific occurrences. The beginning sections focus on the history of hip hop music, Black women in media and hip hop …
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Virginia Hip Hop and Place
… importance in the maintenance of black identity, hip hop has become a global phenomena popular among all races. In this age of mass cultural exchange, hip hop culture itself endures glocalization, that is it serves the global market, but becomes customized to suit the local culture. Where hip hop …
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Mass media framing of hip-hop artists and culture
… to society as a whole. Media coverage of hip-hop culture and the artists associated with it on a national level has been decidedly negative over the past twelve years. From the first rap/hip-hop Grammy win of Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince through the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious …
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It's bigger that hip hop: popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation
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 …
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Children of Moses's experiment : youth, mental health, and hip-hop in the South Bronx
… wellness in their lives through the art and culture of hip-hop. This paper asks, "how is hip-hop music and culture being used as a tool for mental health promotion amongst urban youth, and are these methods effective?" In recent years, mental health professionals and social workers have begun …
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