Article: Dangerous Music in Black and White FROM Constructing Racial Rhetoric: Media Depictions of Harm in Heavy Metal and Rap Music AMY BINDER
1. What are the messages contained in each of the four media frames the author identifies-corruption, protection, danger to society, and not censorship?
2. What are the messages contained in each of the five counterframes used by defenders of heavy metal and rap-no harm, generation gap, threat to authorities, freedom of speech, and important message/art?
3. Why were the corruption and protection frames used more to describe the harmfulness of heavy metal and the danger to society frame used more to describe the harmfulness of rap?
4. In portraying these two types of popular music as harmful to youth but for different reasons, what does this study suggest may be the racist under-tones contained in the news media's framing of the dangers of rap music?