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Gangster Rap and Its Social Cost - Exploiting Hip Hop and Using Racial Stereotypes to Entertain America (Hardcover, New)
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Gangster Rap and Its Social Cost - Exploiting Hip Hop and Using Racial Stereotypes to Entertain America (Hardcover, New)
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Rap music and its gangster rap variant are now far too important
and influential in American life to be ignored by the general
public and research communities alike. Artists and promoters alike
have made a number of questionable claims about the authenticity
and impact of their music that have been taken for granted and not
been critically assessed. Those who have written about from
communications, music and cultural studies have provided an
important but relatively fixed narrative that leaves the central
claims and impacts of this entrepreneur unaddressed. It is in this
context that the author Benjamin Bowser began studying hip hop and
gangster rap precisely because the influence of this movement and
music on African American adolescents HIV infection risk takers. At
the same time, the frequent use of the N-word by gangster rappers
has become a major unaddressed issue in civil rights that has also
not been studied. Furthermore, an important reason to study these
unaddressed issues is to not only better understand them, but to
offer solutions to the problems they pose and to improve the
quality of life of all involved. Within the rapidly growing
literature on hip hop and gangster rap, Gangster Rap and Its Social
Cost stands out from the rest because it provides a number of
unique contributions. First, based upon a community case study, the
author asserts that gangster rap has empowered white racists and,
as a consequence, has reduced the quality of life and civil rights
of listeners and non-listeners alike. Second, this book goes to
great length to make a serious distinction between gangster rap and
hip hop. Disentangling one from the other opens the door to a more
focused and critical analysis of gangster rap and provides an
outline of the unmet potential of rap in hip hop. Third, national
surveys are used as evidence in the debate about the size and
characteristics of the rap and hip hop listener audiences. There
are some surprises here that should reframe the controversy on who
listens to and buys rap music. Fourth, there is a first generation
of psychological and social scientific research on rap music that
is summarized through 2011. Finally, the problems in gangster rap
are not inevitable and we do not have to live with them. They can
be effectively addressed without attacking the civil liberties of
gangster rappers or their corporate sponsors. Gangster Rap and Its
Social Cost is must reading for young adults, parents, those who
both enjoy and dislike rap music, and students in sociology,
psychology, ethnic studies, communication, music, community studies
and public health.
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