Date of Award
Spring 4-1-2007
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
Shirley Shultz Myers
Second Advisor
John Christiansen
Abstract
This paper describes the misdirected path and tainting of rap music from its positive origins to the commercially violent genre it is thought of today. Variables in this devolution of rap include the influence of record and distribution companies, deindustrialization, white flight, migration of gangs, and the introduction of prison culture. This paper introduces a new variable which is the relationship between the emergence of crack cocaine and the devolution of rap music. Other work has begun to appear that mentions one or several variables but not all of them. Arguing that none of these factors can be fully understood in isolation, this paper is the first to examine them in depth and to synthesize them into an interwoven, inseparable whole.
Recommended Citation
Collins, Pamela, "From Consciousness to Callousness: The Misdirected Path of Rap" (2007). Undergraduate University Honors Capstones. 15.
https://ida.gallaudet.edu/honors_capstones/15
