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The purpose of
this study was to assess the effects of exposure to rap music on the attitudes
and perceptions of young African-American males. Subjects u were exposed to
violent rap music videos, nonviolent rap music videos, or no music videos
(controls). They read two vignettes, involving: (a) a violent act perpetrated
against a man and a woman, and (b) a young man who chose to engage in academic
pursuits to achieve success, whereas his friend, who was unemployed,
"mysteriously" obtained extravagant items (i.e., a nice car, nice
clothes). Results indicated, first, that when compared to subjects in the nonviolent
exposure and control conditions, subjects in the violent exposure conditions
expressed greater acceptance of the use of violence. Second, when compared to
subjects in the control condition, subjects in the violent condition 'reported
a higher probability that they would engage in violence.
The purpose of
the present study was to assess the effects of exposure to nonviolent rap music
on African American adolescents' perceptions of teen dating violence. African
American male and female subjects were exposed to nonviolent rap videos (which
contained images of women in sexually subordinate roles) or they saw no videos.
They read a vignette that involved teen dating violence perpetrated by a male.
Hip hop's capacity to circumvent the constraints and limiting social
conditions of young Afro-American and Latino youths has been examined and
celebrated by cultural critics and scholars in various contexts since its
inception in the mid-1970s. For instance, the 8 February 1999 issue of US
magazine
Time featured a cover photo of ex-Fugees and five-time Grammy
award winner Lauryn Hill with the accompanying headline ‘Hip-Hop Nation: After
20 Years – how it's changed America’. Over the years, however, there has been
little attention granted to the implications of hip hop's spatial logics.
Time's
coverage is relatively standard in perceiving the hip hop nation as a
historical construct rather than a geo-cultural amalgamation of personages and
practices that are spatially dispersed.
he purpose of this study was to determine the effects of cognitive distortions concerning women on sexually aggressive behavior in the laboratory. Twenty-seven men listened to misogynous rap music and 27 men listened to neutral rap music. Participants then viewed neutral, sexual-violent, and assaultive film vignettes and chose one of the vignettes to show to a female confederate. Among the participants in the misogynous music condition, 30% showed the assaultive vignette and 70% showed the neutral vignette. In the neutral condition, 7% showed the sexual-violent or assaultive vignette and 93% showed the neutral vignette.
In two experiments, primed subjects were exposed to violent and misogynistic rap music and control subjects were exposed to popular music. Experiment 1 showed that violent and misogynistic rap music increased the automatic associations underlying evaluative racial stereotypes in high and low prejudiced subjects alike. By contrast, explicit stereotyping was dependent on priming and subjects’ prejudice level. In Experiment 2, the priming manipulation was followed by a seemingly unrelated person perception task in which subjects rated Black or White targets described as behaving ambiguously. As expected, primed subjects judged a Black target less favorably than a White target. By contrast, control subjects rated Black and White targets similarly. Subjects’ level of prejudice did not moderate these findings, suggesting the robustness of priming effects on social judgments.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01544683#page-1
http://gpi.sagepub.com/content/5/2/133.short
In two experiments, primed subjects were exposed to violent and misogynistic rap music and control subjects were exposed to popular music. Experiment 1 showed that violent and misogynistic rap music increased the automatic associations underlying evaluative racial stereotypes in high and low prejudiced subjects alike. By contrast, explicit stereotyping was dependent on priming and subjects’ prejudice level. In Experiment 2, the priming manipulation was followed by a seemingly unrelated person perception task in which subjects rated Black or White targets described as behaving ambiguously. As expected, primed subjects judged a Black target less favorably than a White target. By contrast, control subjects rated Black and White targets similarly. Subjects’ level of prejudice did not moderate these findings, suggesting the robustness of priming effects on social judgments.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447759/
Rap music videos are a media genre that is attracting considerable attention. Rap music has evolved from African American music forms, with influences from rhythm and blues, fusion, contemporary gospel, and bebop. Although there is considerable concern regarding the themes and images expressed in rap music videos, limited empirical research has examined the effect of rap music videos on adolescents’ behaviour.
