Social Context and Musical Content of Rap Music, 1979-1995
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2989152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer C Lena (0009-0000-2535-0523, Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 479-495 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sof.2006.0131 |
| OpenAlex | W2159549606 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 27 |
There is a link between the context of production and the content of rap music singles. This research finds that when independent labels owned most of the charted singles, lyrics emphasized features of the local environment and hostility to corporate music production and values. In contrast, the major-label dominated market featured lyrics blending "street" credibility and commercial success in the "hustler" protagonist. I contribute a new finding to research on market concentration and musical diversity: artists' reactions to the market effects musical content
Archaeology · Art · Content (measure theory) · Content analysis · Context (archaeology) · Library science · Media studies · Musical · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Music History and Culture · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Gone country
Good times and endless love
"A Cidade de Manaus a partir da Etnografia do Circuito do "RAP AM
Classifications in Popular Music
Culture, Production of
The Construction of Authenticity in the Creative Process
Sociology of Hip‐Hop Music
The Position of Women in Rap Music in the Context of Gender
Performing sex
“We Stick Out Like a Sore Thumb . . .”
From CDs to MP3s
Shake it, Baby, Shake it
The foundation and transformation of the Turkish rap field (2002-2023)
Rap Music as Resistive Occupation
Regulating for creativity and cultural diversity
Innovation and Diversity Redux
Status Markers in Popular Music Across Six Countries
Geography of American rap
Reading Billboard 1979–89
Sounds like meritocracy to my ears
Listening to Rap
In and out of love with hip-hop
Conflicting Paradigms on Gender and Sexuality in Rap Music
Escaping Embarrassment
The ‘wine revolution’ in the United States, 1960–1980
Our favourite melodies
Hip-hop Urbanism Old and New
Feature-Based Structures of Opportunity
What Makes Popular Culture Popular? Product Features and Optimal Differentiation in Music
Classification as Culture
Boundary processes
The costliest signals of authenticity? How iconic deaths transform audience reception in hip-hop
Un)conscious (popular) underground
Singing the romance
From chart-topper to gold record
Out of tune
Networks and Artistic Status Orders in Cultural Fields
Disperse and preserve the perverse
Categorical ambiguity in cultural fields
When Disney came to Broadway
The sincerest form of flattery
Rap, Race and the (Re)Production of Boundaries
Misogyny in Rap Music
Write a Word, Get a Third
Race and Genre Ambiguity in the Critical Reception of Popular Music
"The cost of being "real
Imagining a Better World
Canvases and careers
Music and society
The black Atlantic
Music Genres and Corporate Cultures
In Search of Authenticity
The field of Cultural Production
Rap's Dirty South
Hit Record Trends, 1940–1977
Popular Music
Distinction
Vocabularies Of Public Life
The Global Jukebox
“The Chain Remain the Same” Communicative Practices in the Hip Hop Nation
Sound exposure in radio
Careers and Creativity
Concentration and Diversity Revisited
Cultural entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Boston
Innovation and Diversity in the Popular Music Industry, 1969 to 1990
Cycles in Symbol Production
Entropy and Popular Culture
Charting race
Black Noise
Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rhetoric in the Music of Public Enemy
The Production of Culture Perspective
Off the Gangsta Tip
Processing Fads and Fashions
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,47 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |