For my LIBBS homework FINAL!

CRN:

Name of Lecturer:

Names of group members:

Other members:

Research topic:

Hip Hop Music

Focused research question:

How does Hip Hop music affect youths in depressed areas?

Question/Activity

Your Response

A. Narrowed topic

Hip Hop music and young people in America

B. The focused research question

How does Hip Hop music affect young people in depressed areas?

C. Your argumentative thesis statement

Hip Hop music in America should be encouraged because it positively influences the youths by promoting creativity, employment, and entrepreneurship amongst this population in depressed areas.

D. Keyword(s), phrases or concepts expressed in your thesis statement.

Hip Hop music, employment, entrepreneurship, promotes creativity, depressed areas, positive, influence.

E. State the name of the library of the online catalogue selected.

NALIS ONLINE

F. List 3 possible access points/fields that can be used to conduct your catalogue search.

Author, Title, Subject and Keywords

G. Do a basic search and write the number of results retrieved.

4 hits

H. Go to the advanced search. Write down the exact search phrase and advanced search techniques (Boolean operators, truncation, etc.) used.

“author:Dan Charnas”

Filter by author name

I. Number of results retrieved.

1

J. Locate the book on the library shelves OR try to locate your selected title in Google Books, Amazon.com, or the like.

Select one (1) book and justify its selection by explaining its relevance to your research topic. Perform the following tasks to assist you in doing this:

Scan OR copy & paste the contents pages into your document.

The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop

· Just as my research topic, the people highlighted to have succeeded through hip-hop music are American young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

K. Peruse the contents pages and identify at least 2 topic-specific chapters OR read the back cover or inside flap.

· Time Warner and corporate America grapples with gangsta rap

· An American Dream: Hip Hop Cashes Out

L. How does the selected book relate to your thesis statement?

· Just as my thesis statement, the book explores positive aspects of hip-hop music. This book explains how music records of this genre made it to the boardrooms and big business deals signed.

M. In 5 or more sentences explain what additional information the book may contribute to your research on the topic.

· This book may give information on specific individuals who have in the recent past succeeded in making business out of hip-hop music. This book would also ascertain the fact that these people are in fact from America’s depressed populations. In addition, this book explains how and what factors aided individual entrepreneurs to succeed in making business out of rap music. This book also highlights different business opportunities that are availed to the youths by hip-hop music and culture.

N. Evaluate:

Read the information on evaluating resources at the following link http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/skill26.htm

Then use the evaluation worksheet at http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/PORT/evaluate/worksheet.html to help you evaluate the book you have selected.

Author: Dan Charnas

Publisher: Simon and Schuster.

Purpose: To guide prospective young people into ways of making money from hip-hop music through giving examples of young people who have made it.

Scope: the book covers the possibility of hip-hop music to transform an individual from a simple dj or rapper to a successful business mogul.

Currency: the book is nine years old, although some of the information may be expected to have changed; it has not. The guidelines given by author to succeed in the hip-hop world are very applicable to date.

Credibility of source: the source can be very useful in any research because it cites actual cases. The author is also a record producer, who, being in the music industry, clearly understands the effects of hip-hop music.

O. Cite:

Create a citation in APA/MLA/Chicago format for your selected book.

APA: Liles, K. (2005). Make It Happen: The Hip-Hop Generation Guide to Success. New York: Simon and Schuster.

MLA: Liles, Kevin. Make It Happen: The Hip-Hop Generation Guide to Success. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005. Print.

Chicago: Liles, Kevin. Make It Happen: The Hip-Hop Generation Guide to Success. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

Question / Activity

Your response

A. Narrowed topic

Hip Hop music and young people in America

B. The focused research question

How does Hip Hop music affect young people in depressed areas?

C. Your argumentative thesis statement.

Hip Hop music in America should be encouraged because it positively influences the youths by promoting creativity, employment, and entrepreneurship amongst this population in depressed areas.

D. Keyword(s), phrases or concepts expressed in your thesis statement.

Hip Hop, youths, young people, business, entrepreneurship, depressed areas.

E. Create an appropriate search string.

“Hip Hop music as a Business”

F. State the name of the subject-specific database that you selected.

Proquest.

G. Do a basic search and write the number of results retrieved.

7,371 results

H. Go to the advanced search. Write down:

· The exact search string and advanced search techniques (Boolean operators, truncation, limiters, etc.) used.

1. Article with the terms “Hip Hop music as a Business.”

2. Content Type: Journal Article.

3. With these terms on title “Hip-Hop”

TitleCombined:(HIP-HOP)

· The number of results retrieved.

448 results

I. Locate one (1) full-text scholarly journal article and explain its relevance to your research topic by doing the following:

· Select an article appropriate to your research topic and print OR copy & paste the first page of the article.

1. How does the selected journal article relate to your thesis statement?

2. In 5 or more sentences, provide a brief summary of the content on the first page of the article. If necessary, you may go on to the 2nd page.

1. This journal article speaks about ordinary hip-hop artists and promoters of this music and how the work with large corporations such as Adidas, Coca-Cola. The article adds that hip-hop is no longer the visual eyesore that it was thought to be. My thesis statement also seeks to show how hip-hop has given business opportunities to the youths just as the article shows.

2. The first page of the article lays a foundation for the rest of the research by explaining the widespread nature of hip-hop throughout the world. This page also gives the reader a glimpse of the features of hip-hop, including what the music entails, the manner in which hip-hop artists present themselves, etc. In addition, this page gives examples of artists from different cultures and artists perception of hi-hop music. This page also adds the importance of the United States environment to hip-hop music and the artists, explaining how they converge in America to make a living out of their art.

I. Evaluate:

Use the evaluation worksheet at http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/PORT/evaluate/worksheet.html to evaluate the periodical article you have selected.

· Authors: Chang, Jeff, and S. C. Watkins

· Source: Foreign Policy journal

· Purpose: to show how hip-hop is squeezed between commercial and economic globalization.

· Scope: Hip-Hop evolution into a global art of communication from Shanghai to Nairobi to São Paulo.

· Currency: the article, being seven years old has some out-old and inapplicable information, such as the fact that more people are now accepting of the music compared to seven years ago.

· Relevance: this article is relevant because it first begins by highlighting the cliché of hip-hop music, particularly; the negatives associated with this art, then, the article shows how hip-hop can be of positive influence to young people.

J. Cite:

Create a citation in APA/MLA/Chicago format for your selected journal article.

APA: Chang, J., & Watkins, S. C. (2007). IT'S A hip-hop world. Foreign Policy, (163), 58-65. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/224039319?accountid=458

MLA: Chang, Jeff, and S. C. Watkins. "IT'S A Hip-Hop World." Foreign Policy.163 (2007): 58-65. ProQuest. 17 July 2014.

Chicago: Chang, Jeff and S. C. Watkins. 2007. "IT'S A Hip-Hop World." Foreign Policy (163): 58-65. http://search.proquest.com/docview/224039319?accountid=458.

Question/Activity

Your response

A. Narrowed topic

Hip Hop music and young people in America

B. The focused research question

How does Hip Hop music affect young people in depressed areas?

C. Your argumentative thesis statement.

Hip Hop music in America should be encouraged because it positively influences the youths by promoting creativity, employment, and entrepreneurship amongst this population in depressed areas.

D. List the keyword(s)/ phrases or concepts expressed in your thesis statement

Hip-hop music, youths in America, positive influence, business, entrepreneurship.

E. Create an appropriate the search string.

Hip-hop Music and its positive influence on American youths

F. State the name of the search engine OR subject directory that you have selected.

Search Engine: Google.com

G. Explain your preferred choice between a search engine or subject directory. State the differences you would expect in the results retrieved.

I prefer a search engine because the scope of results is very wide. I would expect a subject directory to give fewer results compared to a search engine.

H. Do a basic search and write the number of results retrieved.

712,000 results

· Go to the advanced search. Write down: The exact search string and advanced search techniques (Boolean operators, truncation, limiters, etc.) used.

· the number of results retrieved.

1. the positive impact of hip hop music on American youth business

2. “allintext: the positive impact of hip hop music on American youth | business OR of OR Hip-Hop”

1,450,000 results

I. Locate one (1) Web site from your search results that is appropriate to your research topic and print OR copy & paste the home page.

· How does the Web site that you have selected relate to your thesis statement?

· In 5 or more sentences, paraphrase any portion of a web page on the site that provides additional information in support your argument.

1. The selected website evaluates both the positive and the destructive effects of hip-hop on American youths. Just as my thesis statement, the website includes details on how hip-hop can change youths from depressed populations.

2. According to the website, hip-hop music was described in a credible piece in a Wall Street Journal article as a religion for distressed youths and that hip-hop can in fact provides these young people with something to have faith in. Young people may use the power from hip-hop music to help others.

I. Evaluate:

Read and use the evaluation worksheet at

http://www.pensacolachs.org/webpages/capplications/files/Evaluating_sites.doc

to evaluate the web page that you have selected.

· Author: Abkoobthoj

· Purpose: to assess the impact of rap and hip-hop music on American youth.

· Design: Although the article is well legible, the website is cluttered with numerous ads and articles, totally unrelated to the issue of hip-hop music.

· Content: the website article has a lot of relevant content covering more than a standard page of a document.

· Bias: nonetheless, the article is too inclined towards the undesirable effects of hip-hop to the youths.

Relevance: in my research, prior to expounding on the positive impacts of hip-hop to young people, it would make a stronger case to begin with highlighting on the cliché negatives of hip-hop in order to compare the differences. Thus, the negative aspects of hip-hop expressed in this article would be very useful.

J. Cite:

Create a citation in APA/MLA/Chicago format for the Web page that you selected.

APA: Abkoobthoj. (n.d.). The Impact of Rap and Hip-Hop Music On American Youth.Teen Ink. Retrieved July 16, 2014, from http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/all/article/303133/The-Impact-of-Rap-and-Hip-Hop-Music-On-American-Youth/

MLA: Abkoobthoj. "The Impact of Rap and Hip-Hop Music On American Youth." Teen Ink. teenink.com, n.d. Web. 16 July 2014. <http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/all/article/303133/The-Impact-of-Rap-and-Hip-Hop-Music-On-American-Youth/>.

Chicago: Abkoobthoj. "The Impact of Rap and Hip-Hop Music On American Youth." Teen Ink. http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/all/article/303133/The-Impact-of-Rap-and-Hip-Hop-Music-On-American-Youth/ (accessed July 16, 2014).

Working Bibliography:

1. Abkoobthoj. (n.d.). The Impact of Rap and Hip-Hop Music On American Youth.Teen Ink. Retrieved July 16, 2014, from http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/all/article/303133/The-Impact-of-Rap-and-Hip-Hop-Music-On-American-Youth/

2. Belle, C. (2014). From Jay-Z to Dead Prez: Examining Representations of BlackMasculinity in Mainstream Versus Underground Hip-Hop Music. Journal of Black Studies, 45 (4), 287- 300.

3. Burlingame, J. (2014).  Jay Z THE Biography OF A HIP HOP ICON. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publisher. Inc.

4. Chang, J., & Watkins, S. C. (2007). IT'S A hip-hop world. Foreign Policy, (163), 58-65. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/224039319?accountid=458

5. HipHopKC. (n.d.). Careers in Professional Music & Music Business/Management .HipHopKC. Retrieved July 17, 2014, from http://hiphopkc.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&

6. Liles, K. (2005). Make It Happen: The Hip-Hop Generation Guide to Success. New York: Simon and Schuster

7. Lombard, K. (2012). Social Entrepreneurship in Youth Culture: Morganics, Russell Simmons and Emile “XY?” Jansen. Journal for Cultural Research, 16, 1.

8. Path to Hip Hop. (2014). Mission and Overview. Retrieved, 7,13,2014. From, http://www.pathtohiphop.org/youth/mission

9. Rose, T. (2008). The hip hop wars: what we talk about when we talk about hip hop--and why it matters. New York: BasicCivitas.