In this dissertation, I examine the articulation of hip-hop in the mid-1980s as it emerged onto the national stage of American popular culture. Using Articulation Theory, I weave together an argument explaining how and why hip-hop went from being articulated as a set of multicultural and inclusive practices, organized around breaking, graffiti, and DJing, to being articulated to a violent, misogynistic, and homophobic hyper-masculine representation of blackness as essentially rap music culture. In doing so I also argue that there are real political, social, racial, cultural, and ideological implications to this shift in articulation; that something is at stake in defining hip-hop as both black and rap music culture. I put forward this argument by making three distinct steps over the course of this dissertation. First, I identify a change in how hip-hop was represented and thus articulated in popular media. Through an intertextual analysis of the hip-hopsploitation genre films I show that early hip-hop was being represented primarily as a set of cultural practices cohering around breaking, graffiti, and DJing rather than the now dominant articulation as rap music culture. Next I set forth one possible reason for this shift within the limiting conditions set by the available media technologies and means of commodification. The visual nature of hip-hop's early articulation coupled with the economic inaccessibility of consumer home video made breaking and graffiti difficult to commodify compared to rapping as an aural element. Using "technological determinist" theorists like McLuhan, Innis, and Kittler, I argue that understanding how hip-hop as been historically constructed requires analyzing the limiting effect that the material conditions of media technologies have on the production of hip-hop. Finally, I offer a second, racial and cultural reason for this shift in articulation, and begin identifying some of the significance of this shift. A key aspect of the articulation of hip-hop as rap music is the further connection to blackness. This connection may function to maintain white patriarchal hegemony by displacing it on the black body via rap music: a complex dynamic of disidentification and appropriation.

A servohydraulic hip simulator was upgraded to experimentally investigate cadaveric impingement/dislocation of the hip with clinically releveant joint motions. The resulting biomechanical analysis provided insight into risk factors for dislocation/impingement and clearly demonstrated the potential of the hip simulator as a research tool.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2002. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 95 p. : ill. (some col.). Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-92).

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The present study is a delving in the rhetoric of Spanish hip hop with focus on five songs of some of the most prominent artists in the genre in Spain. The aim is a study of the rhetorical figures present in these songs and which function they have in the context of the songs and of hip-hop. The analysis is based on previous studies in the same field as well as different dictionaries and handbooks of rhetorical figures but many conclusions also derive from the investigators own interpretations . The underlying purpose of this study is to locate tendencies in the rhetorical expression used in these songs; the result will be a suggestion of what possibly could be representative for this genre in Spain. / El presente estudio es una indagación en la retórica del hip hop español, enfocado en cinco canciones de algunos de los artistas más prominentes del género en España. El propósito es estudiar las figuras retóricas halladas en las canciones seleccionadas y sus funciones en el contexto de las canciones y de hip-hop. El análisis se basa en investigaciones previas en el mismo ámbito así como en distintos manuales y diccionarios de figuras retóricas, si bien muchas de las conclusiones derivan también de las interpretaciones del investigador. La intención última de este estudio es localizar posibles tendencias de la expresión retórica en las canciones analizadas; el resultado es una propuesta de lo que según el análisis del presente corpus parece ser representativo de este género en España.

Thesis (MAppSc in Physiotherapy)--University of South Australia, 1997

Thesis (MHlthSc(OccTh))--University of South Australia, 1999

Thesis (MAppSc in Physiotherapy)--University of South Australia, 1996

Thesis (MAppSc in Physiotherapy)--University of South Australia, 1997