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Black Rap, White Rock

Non-Declarative Culture and the Racialization of Cultural Categories

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ID2292049
AuthorsJulian Schaap (0000-0002-3656-4225, Erasmus University Rotterdam, corresponding author), Jeroen Van Der Waal (0000-0001-7565-8155, Erasmus University Rotterdam, corresponding author), Willem De Koster (0000-0001-9250-2072, Erasmus University Rotterdam, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume92
Issue4
Pages1281-1305
Publication date2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soin.12461
OpenAlexW3203550055
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited77

Sociologists of race and ethnicity have convincingly demonstrated that cultural categorizations are affected by racialization. For example, some music genres are clearly dominated by people of color (e.g., rap, soul, r&b), whereas others are particularly popular among whites (e.g., rock, country, classical). However, we know relatively little about how habitual such racialized categorizations are for people. We offer an integrated approach of cultural-sociological insights on the implicit underpinnings of categorization processes to understand how implicit, 'nondeclarative' aspects of racial association lie at the heart of the-often, but not always, unintentional-(re)production of racialized cultural categories. We use an Implicit Association Test in combination with a survey (n = 920) to study the connection between rock music and whiteness, and rap music and blackness. First, we find a relationship between whiteness/blackness and having a preference for rock/rap. Second, we demonstrate that the racial associations regarding these genres are firmly grounded in non-declarative knowledge and that this is widely shared across racial groups, albeit somewhat more among people of color

Aesthetics · Art · Categorization · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Implicit-association test · Linguistics · Popular music · Preference · Race (biology · Racialization · Rock music · Sociology · Soul · Visual arts · White (mutation · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology

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Citations per year1,5
Citation span2024 - 2026 (3)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3
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