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Oct 2, 2023 · Connecting people, exposing issues. For decades hip-hop artists have used their power as popular culture stars to influence the political sphere. As academics have begun to take notice of the...
Aug 3, 2020 · Southern rappers' contributions to the genre have long been underestimated in favor of coastal hegemony – but the region has long steered the sound of hip-hop and deserves its story...
- Briana Younger
Born from the struggles and aspirations of African American and Latino youth, hip-hop emerged as a powerful force that would eventually illuminate the path toward social change and empowerment. Beyond its musical influence, hip-hop has made a profound impact on social work, empowering communities, advocating for social justice, and providing ...
Over the past three decades, Hip Hop has developed as a cultural and artistic phenomenon affecting youth culture around the world. For many youth, Hip Hop reflects the social, economic, political, and cultural realities. and conditions of their lives, speaking to them in a language and manner they understand.
- 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
Sep 22, 2000 · Viewed in the context of Black music in America over the past century, there's nothing surprising about hip-hop "crossing over." Blues and jazz crossed over in the 1920s, when whites rushed to Harlem to hear the music. In the 1930s, jazz became — for whites — "swing." When Black musicians created something called bebop (a clear antecedent ...
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Aug 10, 2023 · The birth of trap music and the rise of southern hip-hop In 2003, T.I. and other Atlanta rappers created new subgenre of rap: trap music. Twenty years later, its influence is everywhere. Twenty ...
