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Author	Amatokwu, Buashie
Title	An Afrocentric Analysis of Hip Hop Musical Art Composition and production: Roles, Themes, Techniques, and Contexts
Year Degree Awarded	2009
Department	African American Studies
Degree	Ph.D.
Abstract	This thesis investigates the roles, themes, techniques and contexts of composition in hip-hop. It seeks to explain how hip-hop artists view and define their work, while also taking into consideration the viewpoints of other participants in the marketing pool of hip-hop production and consumption. The conceptual plan on which the study is based is Afrocentric; coupled with Ethnographic method of data processing and interpretation. This method is comprised of personal interviews, participant observation, sonic analysis and the use of bibliographic entries and notes that allows for sense and meaning in text. Also used are documented data, which contain descriptions of hip-hop lyrics, interviews, opinions, journalistic notes, and scholarly reports as a means of evolving a cohesive sense of the message's intent, opinion, knowledge of its roles, themes, techniques, images, and contexts The study found that the issues and themes that dominate hip-hop include bondage impairment, concern over currently warped social values and trends, and challenges over oppressive cultural values and social institutions. The artists whose compositions and renderings were used for the purpose of this study not only demonstrated an ability to isolate and construct themes about issues, but were also familiar with the issues that reveal them as agents for the liberation of the minds of their Diaspora Africa peoples and communities. Their music and grassroots commentaries were found to be appropriately designed to persuade their targeted audience to greater awareness. They conveyed messages that encouraged positive attitude and behavioral change in respect to addressed themes that were, in the main, issues of disenfranchisement. They addressed negative, disapproving behaviors which the atmosphere of disenfranchisement has spurned, and were being expressed through the media of the hip-hop rap musicals. The study also highlights the connection between classical African musical expressions and postmodern Diaspora African musical innovations.
Advisor	Abarry, Abu Shardow Asante, Molefi Kete
Committee Members	Norment, Nathaniel Naʼallah, Abdul Rasheed
Degree Granting Institution	Temple University
Subject	History, African Black Studies Music
Keywords	Hip Hop Musical Art Composition
Publisher	Temple University Libraries
Type	Dissertation
Format	application/pdf
Number of Pages	241
Rights	The author has granted Temple University a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce his or her dissertation, in whole or in part, in electronic or paper form and to make it available to the general public at no charge. This permission is granted in addition to rights granted to ProQuest. The author retains all other rights.
Description	Temple University--Theses
Digital Collection	Temple University Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Contact	etd-library@listserv.temple.edu
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