article summaries #14

For week 14 I read the articles "Hip Hop Perceptions and Exposure as Predictors of School Outcomes for Black and Latino Adolescents", by Edgar H. Tyson conducts a study that examines the relationship between rap music exposure and perceptions of 351 Blacks and Latinos adolescents and their academic and behavioral outcomes. He goes to an urban community in New Jersey and surveyed high school students on how much rap music they listened to in school days and non-school days and then asked them to give last year's GPA. With parental permission to look at their kids files, they discovered that most of the students overestimated their GPAs.  
                In the article "Locating the DJ: Black Popular Music, Location and Fields of Cultural Production" by Athena Elafros explains how location is very important to DJs, producers and industry professionals. For example, at what time they are on air (radio), because who will be listening. Also how they think and process to pick the location in order to be successful. She interviewed 30 people including DJs, producers, industry professionals that focused on black popular music genres.