Luke Gilner
Sources and Summaries
Nielson, Erik. “‘Here Come the Cops’: Policing the Resistance in Rap Music.” International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 15, no. 4, July 2012, pp. 349–63. DOI.org (Crossref), doi:10.1177/1367877911419159.
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This scholarly article is written by Erik Nielson and addresses rap music in regards to police relations. Specifically, Nielson argues that the way how rap music has been defined by scholars to have a large element of police resistance need to change. Instead, scholars need to turn to police strategies and policies that have created defiance in African American neighborhoods that has been a large aspect of rap music.
Low, Bronwen E. “The Tale of the Talent Night Rap: Hip-Hop Culture in Schools and the Challenge of Interpretation.” Urban Education, vol. 45, no. 2, Mar. 2010, pp. 194–220. DOI.org (Crossref), doi:10.1177/0042085908322713.
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This scholarly article is written by Bronwen Low and addresses the relationship hip-hop and rap music can have in an educational setting. To do so, Low continuously cites a two-year classroom study of a spoken word poetry class in an urban high school. Low seeks to show the difficulties with interpretation of rap music in an academic setting. And by doing so, Low also seeks to show that rap music can be appropriate in an academic setting because of its difficulty of interpretation.
Travis, Raphael. “Rap Music and the Empowerment of Today’s Youth: Evidence in Everyday Music Listening, Music Therapy, and Commercial Rap Music.” Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, Apr. 2013, pp. 139–67. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s10560-012-0285-x
This scholarly article is written by Raphael Travis Jr. and is a part of the Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal. This article explores how rap music can be an outlet to empower our youth and how rap music can do that. Travis Jr. addresses several areas to see if rap music can empower youth. The main areas are everyday listening, music therapy, and themes and characteristics within commercial rap music.
Adedeji, Tobi. “The Dynamics of Rap and Marginalization.” Medium, 21 Mar. 2016, https://medium.com/@tobeth71/the-dynamics-of-rap-and-marginalization-c49028dac697.
This popular source article is written by Tobi Adedeji and discusses the relationship rap music has with marginalization. Adedeji provides an overall examination of what marginalization is and then how it is expressed within rap music. She then analyzes Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 album To Pimp a Butterflyand how his own life experiences are formed into music that explains the hardships of marginalization for African Americans.
Marin, Rick. “Grunge: A Success Story.” The New York Times, 15 Nov. 1992. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/15/style/grunge-a-success-story.html.
In this New York Timesarticle, Rick Martin provides a brief history of grunge music. Importantly for my research, Martin examines the culture behind grunge music. He describes the various images and associations with it, and how it became mainstream for some time. The article provides a lot of information on the famous band Nirvana and the huge success they had. This article was important in my research because it provided me with more information on the culture behind grunge music.
Woolf, Sarah. “Rap as a Political Platform: Kendrick Lamar, A Case Study.” Medium, 19 Feb. 2018, https://medium.com/@sarahwoolf/rap-as-a-political-platform-kendrick-lamar-a-case-study-647e7d94bb51.
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This popular source article comes from Medium and is written by Sarah Woolf. This article uses Kendrick Lamar as a case study to see how rap and hip-hop can be used as a political platform. Woolf provides a background of Lamar's life and career, and then discusses his recent partnership with the movie Black Panther. Throughout the article, Woolf provides various examples of Lamar using his platform to discuss social problems. For my website, her discussion of the song "Alright" proved most useful.
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“Genius | Song Lyrics & Knowledge.” Genius, https://genius.com/.
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I used the popular source Genius for most of the song lyrics throughout my website. Specifically, I used Genius to quote song lyrics from the following songs: "F**ck the Police" by NWA, "Changes" and "Keep Ya Head Up" by Tupac Shakur, and "Lithium" by Nirvana.
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