In researching my topic of hip-hop music, I have found two scholarly sources from the Galileo database that I think will prove useful in my final argument paper when paired with the two popular sources that I described in Essay one. The first article, “Can Music Preference Indicate Mental Health Status in Young People?”, published in 2008 by Felicity Baker and William Bor appearing in Australasian Psychiatry, claims that hip-hop and heavy metal music can influence adolescent’s social and emotional behavior and affects their mental health. To determine how music has influenced adolescents, they investigate several clinics and literature such as NEO Personality Inventory and The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to help them
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This source fits into my research about hip-hop music because it provides me information and other credible sources that’ll help me study the behavioral influences on adolescents and why they chose to make the. The article, “Can Music Preference Indicate Mental Health Status in Young People?” really puts it in perspective and give me specific ideas to help me focus my final research project. The article really helps me focus my research now because prior to reading the article, I didn’t know whether I wanted to talk bout with hip-hop music influencing adolescent’s lives in a positive or negative …show more content…
Herd describes the impact of hip-hop music with focusing her research on sexuality and gender roles and explains how much this genre stereotype men and women. By saying, “…that images of manhood in rap music are hypersexual, misogynistic, and violent” (Herd 580). Comparing and contrasting literature such as the Journal of Black Studies and the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, to really help show how these stereotypes are true or not. The article displays how hip-hop music show how women are considered “unfeminine”, men are “aggressive”, and the genre degrades and objectifies women. The article specifically focuses on the gender and sexuality role hip-hop portrays which helps me focus my research on how stereotyping men and women impacting vulnerable adolescents. I found it interesting how at the beginning of the article she lists all the stereotypes, degrading, and objectifying remarks of what other people have thought about hip-hop music, but at the end, she uses contextual evidence to disprove them. Then she goes on to say how in order for “people” to judge the music, they have to understand it first, and that’s why it makes me want to further research on music affecting
This source fits into my research about hip-hop music because it provides me information and other credible sources that’ll help me study the behavioral influences on adolescents and why they chose to make the. The article, “Can Music Preference Indicate Mental Health Status in Young People?” really puts it in perspective and give me specific ideas to help me focus my final research project. The article really helps me focus my research now because prior to reading the article, I didn’t know whether I wanted to talk bout with hip-hop music influencing adolescent’s lives in a positive or negative …show more content…
Herd describes the impact of hip-hop music with focusing her research on sexuality and gender roles and explains how much this genre stereotype men and women. By saying, “…that images of manhood in rap music are hypersexual, misogynistic, and violent” (Herd 580). Comparing and contrasting literature such as the Journal of Black Studies and the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, to really help show how these stereotypes are true or not. The article displays how hip-hop music show how women are considered “unfeminine”, men are “aggressive”, and the genre degrades and objectifies women. The article specifically focuses on the gender and sexuality role hip-hop portrays which helps me focus my research on how stereotyping men and women impacting vulnerable adolescents. I found it interesting how at the beginning of the article she lists all the stereotypes, degrading, and objectifying remarks of what other people have thought about hip-hop music, but at the end, she uses contextual evidence to disprove them. Then she goes on to say how in order for “people” to judge the music, they have to understand it first, and that’s why it makes me want to further research on music affecting