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<p>Hip-Hop music encompasses an extraordinarily diverse range of approaches to politics. Some rap and Hip-Hop artists engage directly with elections and social justice organizations; others may use their platform to call out discrimination, poverty, sexism, racism, police brutality, and other social ills. In <i>Pulse of the People</i>, Lakeyta M. Bonnette illustrates the ways rap music serves as a vehicle for the expression and advancement of the political thoughts of urban Blacks, a population frequently marginalized in American society and alienated from electoral politics.<br><br><i>Pulse of the People</i> lays a foundation for the study of political rap music and public opinion research and demonstrates ways in which political attitudes asserted in the music have been transformed into direct action and behavior of constituents. Bonnette examines the history of rap music and its relationship to and extension from other cultural and political vehicles in Black America, presenting criteria for identifying the specific subgenre of music that is political rap. She complements the statistics of rap music exposure with lyrical analysis of rap songs that espouse Black Nationalist and B
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- Author
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer;Bonnette, Lakeyta M.;Schwarze
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781336096233
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Music, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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