The Rhythm of the Mind

This presentation describes my Music Technology Capstone Research Project, which is a podcast entitled “The Rhythm of the Mind”.
The point of my research is to use the mental health discussions of hip-hop artists, and research on mental health done by psychologists, as talking points to elaborate on the experiences Black men have concerning their mental health.

hello my name is t Samuel Clark I am a Music technology major and this is my research project for My Capstone it is a discussion on Mental Health in the blackmail community and as you can see by way of the subtitle it is a discussion aided by hip-hop the question here is how can hiphop artists Aid in the conversation on Mental Health my research primarily focuses on members of the black male Community the purpose of This research is to have a conversation about mental health pigging backing off of the words of these hip-hop artists lra and deino have since about where I can remember 2018 been talking about their mental health in detail and the things that they have said that I’ve been able to listen to as I was growing up impacted me and helped me to learn and so as I remember the things that they said and I go back through their albums their music forms the bulk of my research along with the things that Kendrick Lamar said concerning his to pimpa Butterfly album and now mentioning his most recent album Mr morale and the big steppers from the concepts talked about in these albums I’m able to delve into deeper conversations about mental health piggy backing off of talking points from the albums and from their interviews they talked a lot about things that they went through in their interviews the stories behind what happened in songs what was going on in their life at that period time those things also fill in gaps that maybe the song was explicit about but didn’t have all the details or that it may have been vague about and from that I take most of my research my new research coming up with the statistics and the data and what have you comes from an article called is it okay to not be okay gotten from the Journal of black studies it is a critical review of a condition the purpose and focus of the research is to draw awareness to the fact that black men do not seek mental health help it goes deep into the reasons and the history behind why we most at the time we most of the time do not seek that help but the purpose of the essay is to call attention to the fact that that is an issue that needs to be remedied especially given the information that you see here on this slide it is too much of a problem to not be focused on and as for my research project rather than deciding to write a paper rather than deciding to write an essay I was given the opportunity to do a podcast format which proved to be much easier for me and I was able to go in detail and in depth in ways that I might not have had the time to had it been an essay this podcast is called rhythm of the mind and in it I do exactly what I’m saying using the information from my research as talking points and I go in depth about how the concepts explored in the talking points showed up in my experience what I’ve seen what I’ve watched people go through and what I’ve gone through myself and how it affected me this podcast is set to come out on December 12th on Spotify and hopefully all the rest of the other platforms and it is seven episodes in length including the intro once again my name is t Samuel Clark this is my research project for My Capstone as a music technology major I hope you enjoyed watching and I hope you enjoy listening to the podcast when it comes out