The underwater sound is a term used within hip hop for the composition of instrumental tracks that accompany vocals, typically referred to as beats. In order to produce the underwater sound, beatmakers use a conglomeration of multiple audio effects including but not limited to l…
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While scholarship regarding Black artistry is growing in the realm of Western art music, the integration and representation of the artistry remains to be of less importance in the main curriculum of the modern music student, especially in the subject of music composition. This r…
Christianity and Hip-Hop culture are often said to be at odds with one another. One is said to promote a lifestyle of righteousness and love, while the other is said to promote drugs, violence, and pride. As a result, the public has portrayed these two institutions as conflictin…
Since its launch in 2008, the Swedish-based audio streaming service Spotify has transformed how consumers experience music. During the same time, Spotify collaborated with social justice activists as a means of philanthropy and brand management. Focusing on two playlists intende…
Cultural evolution, or change in the socially learned behavior of a population over time, is a fascinating phenomenon that is widespread in humans and present in some non-human animals. In this dissertation, I present an array of cultural evolutionary studies that bridge pattern…
In December of 1991, the first lawsuit concerning digital sampling was settled in court. Involving rapper Biz Markie and singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan, Grand Upright v. Warner has been widely hailed as a landmark legal decision, as well as a disaster for musical creativit…
A two part project, one half film and the other an analytical essay. A Maine in Progression is a candid documentary following Detroit music artist Illy Maine in his journey and discoveries throughout life and music. The film explores identity, challenges through troubled times a…
Rap in the United States is considered one of the radical genres in the last half century. This thesis gives a brief historic background of Rap, its relationship to Hip Hop and to Black Lives Matter with biographical information about selected Rap artists. An introduction to the…
The Ainu are recognized as an Indigenous people across the areas of Japan known as Hokkaido and Honshu, as well as the areas of Russia called Sakhalin, Kurile, and Kamchatka. In this research, the term Ainu in Diaspora refers to the distinct cultural identity of Ainu transnation…
Christianity and Hip-Hop culture are often said to be at odds with one another. One is said to promote a lifestyle of righteousness and love, while the other is said to promote drugs, violence, and pride. As a result, the public has portrayed these two institutions as conflictin…
The thesis of this research is that the cultural patrimony of African-American culture is African, and Hip Hop culture is materialization of the African personality in the African-American experience, which has provided great benefit to the world despite circumstances of oppress…
Responding to and provoked by an America colored by stark political division, tense racial conflict, and the powerful urban narrative of hip hop culture, Hamilton: An American Musical, created by composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda, became the subject of a cultural focus unprec…
This dissertation explores the complex relationships between the municipal government and marginalized groups in New York City during the early 1970s, namely Afro-Caribbean immigrant communities in the South Bronx and genderqueer bohemian communities in Lower Manhattan. Through …
Right-wing, nationalist hip-hop shouldn’t exist, but it does in Japan. This is the starting point–but this dissertation ends up ends up expanding into several forms of pop culture. By examining what “blackness” means in Japan, I work to challenge assumptions about what “black” m…
Alongside New York City, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, Minneapolis, Minnesota has become a cradle of hip-hop, breeding a distinct style that has grown swiftly from the 1980s to the present day. While Minneapolis is more commonly associated with the upbeat funk rhythms and prominent …
This dissertation engages notions of the contemporary American ghetto as a distinct socio-spatial order, one marked by extreme isolation. This engagement is through exploration of the ghetto as an alternative socio-spatial order, distinguished by cosmopolitanism and the role som…
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary project that investigates the relationship between race, music, place, and the body in the religious self-making of young American Muslims. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic research with black, Pakistani and Palestinian American …
This thesis explores interactions between self-fashioning and consumption in the hip hop scene in Uganda. In the performances of musical and social life, hip hop reveals first, tactile interactions between ideas and objects, subjective and relational to processes of consumption …
The published works that form the basis of this PhD are a selection of hip-hop songs written over a period of six years between 2010 and 2015. The lyrics for these pieces are all written by the author and performed with hip-hop group Stanley Odd. The songs have been recorded and…