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Welcome
This wiki is the sketchbook for my Comparative Media Studies Master's thesis. The page you are looking at contains the outline which will link to various chapters as they are written.
Abstract
Since the late 1970’s, young people of color have created hip-hop by applying the adaptability of oral culture to consumer technologies. The tradition of spirited competition in hip-hop culture rewards innovation in sound, language, dance, and visual presentation. Unfortunately, many of these innovative practices find themselves subsumed by a totalizing view of pop music or pass by largely unseen; artifacts ephemeral and lost to history. Examining this culture of innovation reveals a technical sophistication and cultural literacy among young people of color (in particular, young males) that belies their statistical underachievement in conventional education environments. By taking advantage of the access to niche trends afforded by social-networking services, this thesis will explore three recent phenomena: the rise of the mixtape economy, the acceleration of regional dance crazes, and the unexpected deployment of pitch-correction software among hip-hop vocalists. This research will then be mobilized to consider how serious consideration of technical innovation in hip-hop culture might influence educators and affect achievement among young people of color.
Progress
- Outline
- Chapter 0 Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Hip-hop Approach
- Chapter 2 Mixtapes: An alternate history of hip-hop
- Chapter 3 Crank Dat: innovation in a post-mixtape era
- Chapter 4 Implications for learning
- Working Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Del.icio.us
- Clipboard (potentially useful clips)