SOCC44H3 Lecture 8: Thorough Notes on Lecture 8
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Listening to rap: cultures of crime, cultures of resistance. since he did his study in the early 1960s, there was a change in the music industry (at the time it was all rock and roll). rap was represented as having a corrosive influence on the behaviour of young people. due to its strong ties to pop culture in the media, rap music had ill effects on those who listened to it. woman (name?) conducted a study on hard rock and rap music and how they were perceived in the media. she found that, where heavy metal was seen as developing ill effects on individuals, rap music had ill effects on the whole society. first reason why rap was seen as a greater societal threat, rap was seen as being more societally harmful due to it"s alliance with aggression and violent language. second, the assumptions it made of its audience.
