Holden Richards

Music and Subcultures; Rap

Rap music , as a subculture, perfectly demonstrates the Birmingham School of thought and their theories of subcultures. The Birmingham School made four key judgments about subcultures ; bricolage (dress), recuperation (movement from niche to main stream), authenticity (genuine) and homology (continuity).

Rap music was born in the Bronx in a working class area populated by ethnic minorities. The music style began as a way for those in political, social and economic stress to express themselves. They adopted a certain More