Editing hip-hop within youth work activities
An actor-network theory analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12600993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Wilson (0000-0002-1560-7417, University of Canterbury, corresponding author), María-Victoria Perez-Y-Perez (0000-0003-1934-7488, University of Canterbury), Nikki Evans (University of Canterbury) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1396-1410 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Youth Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-6261 • E-ISSN: 1469-9680 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13676261.2017.1333586 |
| OpenAlex | W2621217194 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 33 |
Debates concerning hip-hop have tended to centre on controversy. For example, critics of hip-hop have focused on its association with bads such as violence, misogyny and drug use, gangsta culture, and the vandalism associated with graffiti art, while hip-hop’s defenders have celebrated the enactment of goods such as youth expression and empowerment. Increasingly, practitioners and educators have sought to mobilise particular forms or activities of hip-hop in order to draw on the potential of hip-hop in youth work. This article draws on an ethnographic study that explored how hip-hop activities were produced across a range of youth work sites in Christchurch, New Zealand. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT) the study traced how hip-hop controversies were negotiated within youth work sites of practice, illustrating the collective editing work that was undertaken in order to handle these controversies (bads). The ANT approach to consider what is sometimes referred to as the ‘mess’ of social reality [Law 2004, 230 After Method: Mess in Social Science Research. New York: Routledge] was well suited to the study’s goal of understanding the complexities involved in using and assembling hip-hop in youth work contexts. This paper provides ‘snapshots’ of the study’s findings, to reveal the collective work in the editing of hip-hop music to avoid hip-hop bads
Actor–network theory · Art · Ethnography · Graffiti · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Music History and Culture · Public Spaces through Art
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |