Does My Message Define My Role?
Document Type
Video
Publication Date
6-22-2022
Abstract
Using data from interviews with hip-hop artists, Castel Sweet discusses how artists’ emphasis on their music’s message influences their interpretation of having a role, or identifiable place, in their local community. Considering the significance of space and place within hip-hop music, Sweet examines how respondents’ identities as artists are shaped by their local communities and how artists’ identities influence their production of hip-hop music. Sweet explores if and how hip-hop artists maintain connections to their local communities and construct localized identities within a global market that encourages the deterritorialization of music.
Castel Sweet is the director of the University of Mississippi’s Center for Community Engagement in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, and assistant professor of practice in community engagement. In addition to her work as a community engagement professional, Sweet’s qualitative research explores the ways in which hip-hop artists use their art to pursue social change and community engagement.
Relational Format
video recording
Recommended Citation
Sweet, Castel and Thomas, Braxton, "Does My Message Define My Role?" (2022). SouthTalks. 3.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southtalks/3