Beyond the street
The Institutional Life of Rap
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4944370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Bramwell (0000-0002-3411-5223, Loughborough University), James Butterworth (0000-0002-1968-3417, University of Oxford) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-186 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143020000355 |
| OpenAlex | W2938452615 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over the course of one year in London and Bristol to examine the performance of rap in English youth centres. Youth centres play a significant role in supporting and shaping rap culture. However, historically dominant narratives within hip-hop studies and hip-hop culture depict rap as a vernacular cultural form that emerges from 'the street', and which derives its authenticity through its relation to 'the street'. We seek to move beyond such discourses and towards a recognition of the institutional processes, structures and networks that shape and sustain rap culture. Our focus on the institutional life of rap leads to an analysis of the various possibilities, limitations and tensions that arise in the coming together of public funding, and social policy priorities, local organisations and black vernacular culture
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Vernacular · Anthropology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Music History and Culture
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Rap Music and Street Consciousness
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Controlling the Flow
Rap therapy
Educating for cultural citizenship
The origins of social institutions
Proximity by design? Affective citizenship and the management of unease
Represent
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Playing the Dozens
Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms
Writing in the Margins
Institutions of Youth Development
The Discursive Side of New Institutionalism
Ethno-National Pop-Rock Music
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |