More than noise: Employing hip-hop music to inform community development practice

Justin Hollander and Jennifer Quinn

Community Development, 2016, vol. 47, issue 5, 652-669

Abstract: The quality of information which a community development professional has access to will limit her ability to understand the issues, concerns, and desires of a community. Artistic expression, specifically hip-hop music, can provide a novel level of understanding of community dynamics to community development practice and research. This research established a methodology that would enable practitioners and researchers to effectively extract relevant details embedded within hip-hop music. We employed a microanalysis approach to study 100 hip-hop songs to extract the relevant themes and codes. We found key relationships in the music between the artists and how they relate to their physical surroundings.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2016.1210662

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