Rap music: popular perceptions and its affect on the lives of adolescents attending Jackson Middle and Grimsley High Schools of Guilford County, North Carolina

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dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Henry Vanderbilten
dc.contributor.committeechairGraham, Richard Terryen
dc.contributor.committeememberLepczyk, Billie F.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBurnsed, C. Vernonen
dc.contributor.committeememberGarrison, James W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWilliams-Green, Joyceen
dc.contributor.departmentCurriculum and Instructionen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:12:00Zen
dc.date.adate2008-06-06en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:12:00Zen
dc.date.issued1997-08-05en
dc.date.rdate2008-06-06en
dc.date.sdate2008-06-06en
dc.description.abstractRap music and its affect on the lives of adolescents has been a controversial topic since the mid-1970s. The celebratory and inflammatory aspects of rap and the often negative media coverage of rap music and rap artists have placed the questionable art form at the forefront of popular controversy. Rappers often struggle with the tension between fame and rap's gravitational pull toward inner city narratives; generally, rappers craft stories that represent the creative fantasies, perspectives, and experiences of racial marginality in America. Effort to make meaning of this art form and its perceived affect on contemporary American youth is at best obscure. Rap music is often deemed noisy, nonsensical, and absent of sustenance by strongholds of popular culture. Rap's controversial landscape tends to be inundated with the following questions in regard to its affect on the lives of adolescents: Can violent images incite violent action; can music enhance the political mobilization of the disenfranchised; and whether or not sexually explicit lyrics contribute to the moral "decay" of contemporary American society?en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.extentiii, 219 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-06062008-145038en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-145038/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/37973en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V856_1997.J646.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 39319074en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectMusic - 20th centuryen
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V856 1997.J646en
dc.titleRap music: popular perceptions and its affect on the lives of adolescents attending Jackson Middle and Grimsley High Schools of Guilford County, North Carolinaen
dc.typeDissertationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineCurriculum and Instructionen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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