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May 13, 2005 · Hip-hop encompasses everything from dance and fashion to music. Forman said rap is the vocal and lyrical aspect of hip-hop. Hip-hop has become increasingly popular over the years and its influence ...
Mar 17, 2021 · However, youth’s perceptions of rap (e.g., rap is empowering or misogynistic) were found to be directly associated with indicators of SPD. These findings provide insight into the potential influence of hip-hop culture beyond music on youth’s racial-justice beliefs and actions.
Oct 2, 2023 · Soon hip-hop culture and rap music became a global phenomenon — leading to this year marking the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Today, hip-hop culture, and its four main elements — MCing (rap ...
Aug 25, 2023 · Hip-hop music culture is a product of African American, Afro-Caribbean and Latino inner-city communities plagued by poverty, the proliferation of drugs, and gang violence in the 1960s and early 1970s. By providing the youth with a sense of identity and belonging, Hip-Hop’s strong influence fosters a sense of unity.
- Empowerment
- Esteem
- Resilience
- Growth
- Connection Is Critical
- Community
- Change
Empowermentis a broad construct within which to privilege the framework dimensions of esteem, resilience, and growth (individual empowerment), along with community and change (community empowerment). Each dimension has a core definition from the social sciences, but also a specific contextual relevance within rap music culture. These connections wi...
Self-esteem is a multi-dimensional concept, including perceived self worth, but also thoughts of how others perceive the individual. Self-esteem captures one’s net evaluation of self and the extent that it is “favorable” and “satisfying” (Gomes and Speizer 2010). Perceived “other-based” self-esteem has shown to be especially significant for mental ...
Resilience is generally “positive adaptation within the context of significant adversity” (Luthar et al. 2000; Masten 2001). Adding precision to potential pathways of specific measurement is the description of resilience as “the process of negotiating, managing, and adapting to significant sources of stress or trauma” (Windle et al. 2011, p. 2). Th...
The third and final dimension of the individual empowerment portion of the framework emphasizes growth. It includes deliberately development-enhancing processes, analogous to thriving (Lerner et al. 2009), flourishing (Seligman 2011), and core competencies for positive youth development and risk prevention (Guerra and Bradshaw 2008). This growth an...
Connection includes supportive, prosocial and caring relationships among important people in a young person’s life. This connection can also encompass spirituality and similarly supportive, meaningful spiritual relationships with a higher power and a faith community (Smith and Jackson 2005). Connection is a critical dimension of positive youth deve...
The community empowerment aspect of the framework includes community and change dimensions. The community dimension speaks to psychological connection as well as social engagement with members of a group or community (Chavis et al. 2008). Empowerment occurs via a heightened sense of belonging to an identified group but it is also that there is func...
The change dimension refers to change for better conditions within communities of identification. The nature and degree of desired change for a preferred community is entirely subjective. The goals of positive social change may be accepting the status quo but changing morals/values, mitigating perceived inequities, or eliminating perceived inequiti...
- Raphael Travis
- rtravis@txstate.edu
- 2013
Jun 8, 2021 · Whereas trap, the Atlanta-born rap style that dominated hip-hop for most of the 2000s, is often rhythmically rigid – with a snare falling on the third beat of each bar – drill moves to skippy ...
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Aug 9, 2023 · Hip-hop has impacted everything: Art, culture, fashion, community, social justice, politics, sports, business. This year is being marked as a 50th anniversary ...
