The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music by John Shepherd

Author:John Shepherd [Shepherd, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781135007904
Publisher: TaylorFrancis
Published: 2015-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Recognizing that there are disagreements surrounding the use of the terms “hip hop” and “rap,” for the purposes of this chapter I use them interchangeably. Although hip hop is generally thought to include the expressive practices of graffiti-writing, b-boying/b-girling and deejaying, I focus on hip hop as a music commodity.

2 I present these organizing structures as either/or options largely in the practical interest of framing my discussion. They are in fact much more blurred than this model suggests.

3 Perkins (1996) locates rap as the most recent in a line of black US oral traditions.

4 Harrison (2008) builds on McLeod’s study by examining applications and understandings of racial authenticity over fifteen-plus years of hip-hop scholarship.

5 Specifically, Ice’s feigned claim to cultural immersion within a predominantly black hip-hop world.

6 Remarkably little sociological attention has been given to actual statistics on rap sales by race.

7 Recognizing that this study is outside my stated US focus, I nevertheless believe its relevance warrants inclusion.

8 Delaney (1997) suggests that when white hip-hop consumers enter adulthood many of them abandon their hip-hop fandom in favor of more mainstream interests.

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