Choosing Readings -- Koza overview

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Choosing Readings with Working with Texts as a Primary Method

Koza, Julia Eklund

Rap Music: The Cultural Politics of Official Representation from Sound Identities: Popular Music and the Cultural Politics of Education Peter Lang Publishing (1999)

Illustrates work with

Serves as starting model for

Could be added to

  •  textual analysis – music

  •  content analysis

  •  visual materials

  •  media analysis – print forms

  •  popular culture -- music

Examines the representation of rap music in three mainstream U.S. news magazines, Newsweek, Time, and U.S. News and World Report. Through a content analysis of articles on rap from 1983 to 1992, Koza investigates how these influential magazines instruct White Americans to respond to rap's emergence on the musical scene. She concludes that these magazines' representations of rap, rappers, and rap fans contribute to the "construction and commodification of otherness" - in this case, the Black male. Koza's argument is based not solely on her analysis of textual and pictorial content, but on what John Fiske calls "generic characteristics" or "conventions" of the genre.

See the class activity on Teaching Reading as a Researcher  -- following the steps of a project using Koza as an example.

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