The culture industry, hip hop music, and the white perspective: How one dimensional representation of hip hop music has influenced white racial attitudes

This theoretical study builds from Ben Agger's theory in his 1992 book, Cultural Studies as Critical Theory: The ideological outcomes of the culture industry are in a sense unintended; they emerge in the interplay of authorial, directorial, and audience assumptions about the nature of the world. (Agger 1992:65).;I theorize the effect of the culture industry's cycle of assumptions on the one-dimensional representation of hip hop music and its reflection and reinforcement of Whites' perceptions of Blacks and Black Culture. The reinforcement of Whites' historically negative racial attitudes emerge unintended through a complex cycle of assumptions between the director (culture industry), the author (hip hop artist), and the audience (White consumers).