Social Networks and Music Worlds by Nick Crossley Siobhan McAndrew Paul Widdop

Author:Nick Crossley, Siobhan McAndrew, Paul Widdop [Nick Crossley, Siobhan McAndrew, Paul Widdop]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
ISBN: 9781317964759
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2014-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Measuring asymmetries in the French-speaking rap music network

In France, the annual production of rap LP records has exceeded five titles since 1993. In other French-speaking countries, such a level was only reached at the end of the 1990s in Canada, and in the middle of the 2000s in Belgium and Switzerland. The development of rap acts and hence of featurings on LP records is thus concentrated in the early period of the 2000s, justifying their synchronic analysis. Nevertheless, in the network shaped by French-speaking rap artists’ collaborations, France remains quantitatively predominant. More than 200 artistic units in the network are French, about 80 Canadian, and less than 20 Belgian or Swiss. There are also little more than 20 artistic units belonging to African countries, Senegal, Mali, Gabon and Algeria being the most significant. In each country, featurings play a significant role: from one-fifth to one-third of the rap songs feature different artists.

Except for some small two-node components, there is only one significant component in the network of collaborations between French-speaking rap artists. Yet, this component doesn’t look like the main component of Figure 6.1. Unlike the core–periphery structure of the collaborations between French rap artists; we observe here two sub-graphs loosely connected in the main component. On the left lies a large sub-graph with many grey nodes, corresponding to the French artists. Few other nodes are set at its periphery: these are African artists (indicated by circles), Belgian (by squares) and Swiss (by diamonds). On the right part of the main component, there is a subset of upright triangles, which stands for Canadian rap artists.

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