Title page for ETD etd-06062008-145038
|Type of Document
||Johnson, Henry Vanderbilt
||Rap music :popular perceptions and its affect on the lives of adolescents attending Jackson Middle and Grimsley High Schools of Guilford County, North Carolina
||Curriculum and Instruction
|Graham, Richard Terry
|Burnsed, C. Vernon
|Garrison, James W.
|Lepczyk, Billie F.
|Date of Defense
Rap 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?
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