Proposal 2
Working title:
Does rap music and artist like "Nines" create a negative representation of black youth?
Angle:
What impact does urban music videos have? Does it indoctrinate young black people to chase a hopeless dream and be that negative representation?
Hypothesis:
Music videos have made young black boys believe, being a "gangster" is "cool."
Linked production piece:
Music Video to a nines track.
MIGRAIN
Who is being represented?
Youths in the UK and US are being represented as "Chavs" and "Ghetto." They have been represented like that by news companies, which leaks onto middle classed people who watch the news and read newspapers and gives then an invalid representation of youth in the UK and US. The representation is not true to all types of youth in those two countries, however, it could be seen that way, because all you see in the news is mainly black boys causing trouble in the streets of London, or any other city. However, I don't just think it is the news that gives such a representation of youth like this, it is also movies and music videos that do so. Music videos in the UK and US are seen by many people in the world, which can give a negative stereotype of youth. Examples of this includes:-
Chief Keef
Bobby Shmurda
Youths in the UK and US are being represented as "Chavs" and "Ghetto." They have been represented like that by news companies, which leaks onto middle classed people who watch the news and read newspapers and gives then an invalid representation of youth in the UK and US. The representation is not true to all types of youth in those two countries, however, it could be seen that way, because all you see in the news is mainly black boys causing trouble in the streets of London, or any other city. However, I don't just think it is the news that gives such a representation of youth like this, it is also movies and music videos that do so. Music videos in the UK and US are seen by many people in the world, which can give a negative stereotype of youth. Examples of this includes:-
Chief Keef
Bobby Shmurda
Media Language and forms
Nines' music videos are connontated as a glorification of real life on the streets,causing kids to want to do so. It is also connotated as an enlightenment to middle classed people, a little look of how it is to struggle.
People who have no idea about the roads, just take Nines' videos as a shorthand, and they think is everything is truth, which makes youth look bad.
There are many gesturges that make the music videos seem like truth, for instance, the handshakes the greetings, also, the costumes plays a big big part in what viewers think, they think, everyone who wears baggy jeans hats, hoodies and gucci shoes are drug dealers. Alot of props are used, such as guns, drugs and money. Also I think women could be seen as props, as they are objectified in some of the videos.
The costumes again play a big part in portraying a particular image of black lifestyle to viewers. Also the lighting is very dull, showing that there is no happiness on the estates, which shows to viewers, people that live on council estates are not happy.
Narrative
The narrative is a multi layered narrative,because there is no real equilibrium and disequilibrium All of the boys n the gang and ion the estate are seen as heroes, the other people that are not seen but rapped about are seen as villains
The estate is alienated, as it looks like there is nothing else to do but stay on the estate. The themes of the music videos are Drugs, Money and Freedom.
Genre
This type if music belongs to the grime/British rap genre. There is low lighting, fast paced music and narrative, alot of tension. Costume, clothes, the way they talk and speak is generic to this genre. The generic themes of this genre are the themes: Money Drugs, Power and Freedom. The characters are very generic, they talk, dress and look like they are from the ghetto. They don't have their head screwed on book wise, but they are very street wise. This is a typical genre for this type of music video.
Issues and Debates
The main issues and debates are stereotyping and representation. This is because black people are always stereotyped negatively. this causes the,to fit into the stereotypes and act how the media want them to act to allow the media to be right about what they said.
Young kids between the ages of 11-18 see this type of music as cool, and something to aspire to. So they want to be like the artists. But society tells them that they are wrong to want to be like these artist, but don't give them someone else to be like, because the majority of black people in the news are on the news for negative reasons.
Top boy and these other movies aren't reality TV, but the music videos seem to be reality. Alot of rappers make it look like its reality, because they are rapping on their road, on the estate with all their friends which shows to the audience it is real.
There is a big moral panic in and around the UK because due to the knife crime and gun crime saga. As that seemed to die down, the London riots came and put the people of London into another moral panic. An example the moral panics from the London Riots is the daily mail article which causes fear and poor decision making from readers. This can also allow people to jump onto the bandwagon for the hatred of black youth.
SHEP
Social
Single parent families and families without father figures take this music more literally than others.
Historical
9/11 made people more aware of terrorism
Economical
Working class poorer people are more likely to listen and take these videos in the wrong manner. The reccession also made the working classed black people become poorer, which causes them to move to crime and music as it is a way to make fast money if you are good at it.
Political
The government are not fans of this music, but like the show as it is a way of "dry snitching" Also how the riots were shown all over TV as main news headlines caused readers and viewers to take a political stand point due to way the riots were publicised in and around the UK
Audience theories
American nightmare
This can kind of be a another theory related to, even though we are not in the UK. as there are places in poverty, that are shown hostility by government, police and other people. There is fear of all kinds of terrorism due to the 9/11 attack. There are people in the UK that want to have a better life but can't so they resort to selling drugs and committing crimes which is quick money. This is what they rap about.
Medhurst
This shows that films and music videos may use short hands to show different things that can be a quick reminder of what type of video it is. Rappers put a fasade on to make them seem "badder" than they actually are which makes them tap into the stereotype of black youth.
Perkins
Some of the stereotypes are positive and true, which means media and audiences are able to put the represented people in a category.
The copycat theory
Children want to be like the people that are famous in the media and that have some sort of power, so music videos that shows the lavish lifestyle of drug dealers, makes them want to be a part of it
Main Text:
Nines
other focus' include:
Stormzy
Snap Capone
Skepta
Documentaries
Educating black boys topdocumentaryfilms.com
University Docs
http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED293951
http://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_414616_38
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ort/54/1/6/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1580145/
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=3k4uqLaRRN8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=black+youth&ots=rujIsBxKEW&sig=B0-KBfTfk7f85hqkQUH0OwAS7mI#v=onepage&q=black%20youth&f=false
Links
Guardian
Grime Report
Telegraph
People who have no idea about the roads, just take Nines' videos as a shorthand, and they think is everything is truth, which makes youth look bad.
There are many gesturges that make the music videos seem like truth, for instance, the handshakes the greetings, also, the costumes plays a big big part in what viewers think, they think, everyone who wears baggy jeans hats, hoodies and gucci shoes are drug dealers. Alot of props are used, such as guns, drugs and money. Also I think women could be seen as props, as they are objectified in some of the videos.
The costumes again play a big part in portraying a particular image of black lifestyle to viewers. Also the lighting is very dull, showing that there is no happiness on the estates, which shows to viewers, people that live on council estates are not happy.
Narrative
The narrative is a multi layered narrative,because there is no real equilibrium and disequilibrium All of the boys n the gang and ion the estate are seen as heroes, the other people that are not seen but rapped about are seen as villains
The estate is alienated, as it looks like there is nothing else to do but stay on the estate. The themes of the music videos are Drugs, Money and Freedom.
Genre
This type if music belongs to the grime/British rap genre. There is low lighting, fast paced music and narrative, alot of tension. Costume, clothes, the way they talk and speak is generic to this genre. The generic themes of this genre are the themes: Money Drugs, Power and Freedom. The characters are very generic, they talk, dress and look like they are from the ghetto. They don't have their head screwed on book wise, but they are very street wise. This is a typical genre for this type of music video.
Issues and Debates
The main issues and debates are stereotyping and representation. This is because black people are always stereotyped negatively. this causes the,to fit into the stereotypes and act how the media want them to act to allow the media to be right about what they said.
Young kids between the ages of 11-18 see this type of music as cool, and something to aspire to. So they want to be like the artists. But society tells them that they are wrong to want to be like these artist, but don't give them someone else to be like, because the majority of black people in the news are on the news for negative reasons.
Top boy and these other movies aren't reality TV, but the music videos seem to be reality. Alot of rappers make it look like its reality, because they are rapping on their road, on the estate with all their friends which shows to the audience it is real.
There is a big moral panic in and around the UK because due to the knife crime and gun crime saga. As that seemed to die down, the London riots came and put the people of London into another moral panic. An example the moral panics from the London Riots is the daily mail article which causes fear and poor decision making from readers. This can also allow people to jump onto the bandwagon for the hatred of black youth.
SHEP
Social
Single parent families and families without father figures take this music more literally than others.
Historical
9/11 made people more aware of terrorism
Economical
Working class poorer people are more likely to listen and take these videos in the wrong manner. The reccession also made the working classed black people become poorer, which causes them to move to crime and music as it is a way to make fast money if you are good at it.
Political
The government are not fans of this music, but like the show as it is a way of "dry snitching" Also how the riots were shown all over TV as main news headlines caused readers and viewers to take a political stand point due to way the riots were publicised in and around the UK
Audience theories
American nightmare
This can kind of be a another theory related to, even though we are not in the UK. as there are places in poverty, that are shown hostility by government, police and other people. There is fear of all kinds of terrorism due to the 9/11 attack. There are people in the UK that want to have a better life but can't so they resort to selling drugs and committing crimes which is quick money. This is what they rap about.
Medhurst
This shows that films and music videos may use short hands to show different things that can be a quick reminder of what type of video it is. Rappers put a fasade on to make them seem "badder" than they actually are which makes them tap into the stereotype of black youth.
Perkins
Some of the stereotypes are positive and true, which means media and audiences are able to put the represented people in a category.
The copycat theory
Children want to be like the people that are famous in the media and that have some sort of power, so music videos that shows the lavish lifestyle of drug dealers, makes them want to be a part of it
Main Text:
Nines
other focus' include:
Stormzy
Snap Capone
Skepta
Documentaries
Educating black boys topdocumentaryfilms.com
University Docs
http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED293951
http://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_414616_38
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ort/54/1/6/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1580145/
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=3k4uqLaRRN8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=black+youth&ots=rujIsBxKEW&sig=B0-KBfTfk7f85hqkQUH0OwAS7mI#v=onepage&q=black%20youth&f=false
Links
Guardian
Grime Report
Telegraph
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