BROCKHAMPTON: Social Advocacy and Diversity in Rap Music

Authors

  • Ndidi Opara Lake Washington High School

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v9i1.1233

Keywords:

Rap, BROCKHAMPTON, American Color line in Music Marketing, Race in music, Race, African Pedagogy, Social Justice, Social Change

Abstract

BROCKHAMPTON is a diverse, multiracial rap group that has recently garnered rapidly increasing popularity and influence in the rap industry. Because of this, I wanted to determine if the popularity of the group’s SATURATION  trilogy was affected by the content matter they addressed and how that intersected with the American color line in music marketing. With the research question, “To what extent does the race of a BROCKHAMPTON member and the advocacy they utilize, whether it be pro-social or anti-social advocacy examined through the usage of corresponding social themes, influence the popularity of a given song from BROCKHAMPTON’s SATURATION trilogy?”, this study found that it was influenced to a minor extent, with no strong correlation found between race and social themes discussed, or between popularity and the dominant thematic category of a song.

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Published

09-15-2020

How to Cite

Opara, N. (2020). BROCKHAMPTON: Social Advocacy and Diversity in Rap Music. Journal of Student Research, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v9i1.1233

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AP Capstone™ Research