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Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
Vol. 3, 01 March 2023
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Research on The Identity Construction of Chinese Hip-Hop Fans
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Abstract
Hip-Hop culture was born in black neighborhoods in the United States, Since its introduction to China, it has been excluded from the mainstream cultural system and remained "underground" for a long time. However, with the broadcast of "The Rap of China", a show featuring hip-hop music, hip-hop culture has attracted widespread attention in China, and the number of Chinese hip-hop fans has exploded. This paper takes Chinese hip-hop culture and Chinese hip-hop fans as the research objects, attempts to explore how hip-hop fans achieve identity construction from their perspective. This research mainly adopts quantitative research and qualitative research through questionnaires and in-depth interviews with hip-hop fans, and finds that the identity construction of hip-hop fans has two aspects: self-identity construction through hip-hop fans' pursuit of an "ideal self", resonance with hip-hop music and consumption behavior, and social identity construction through their interaction with "in-groups" and "out-groups". Although there are some limitations in the methods and conclusions, this paper will still be beneficial to further explore the chinese hip-hop fans research from the perspective of identity construction.
Keywords
Chinese Hip-Hop Culture, Identity Construction., Fandom
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries (ICEIPI 2022), Part II
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-915371-09-6
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-915371-10-2
- Published Date
- 01 March 2023
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7048
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7056
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7048/3/2022481
- Copyright
- 01 March 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited