#TheJayZMixtape Main MenuAbout the Mixtape: Table of ContentsTable of Contents#TheIntroduction: Why Jay-Z?An Introduction to the digital hip hop studies#TheLanguage: Visualizing Jay-Z’s word usageThis path explores Jay Z’s word usage, frequently used words, and similes across 12 albums.#TheCollaborations: Visualizing Jay-Z’s collaborationsThis path explores Jay Z’s collaborative efforts with artists from coast-to-coast.#TheSamples: Visualizing Jay-Z’s samplesThis path visualizes the interconnectivity of Jay Z’s music by visualizing his music samples.ConclusionFinal thoughts, Thank you's, and acknowledgementsAcknowledgementsAbout this BookCitation and Copyright InformationKenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153Published by Publishing Without Walls, Urbana, Ill., part of the Illinois Open Publishing Network,
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1media/PWW-KR.jpg2017-06-13T22:04:19+00:00Kenton Rambsy1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a915322Dr. Kenton Rambsy, Fall 2016plain2018-01-02T14:07:33+00:00Janet Swatscheno61665aa235060c0c8f3e0f97aedf405f59d3c633
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12017-06-13T18:18:56+00:00About Dr. Kenton Rambsy12Biography of Dr. Kenton Rambsyplain2017-12-22T13:56:58+00:00Dr. Kenton Rambsy has developed unique expertise in a rapidly expanding social and academic landscape which is characterized by heavy reliance on a digital interaction.
Kenton is currently a professor of African American literature and digital humanities at the University of Texas at Arlington where his cutting-edges teaching includes a course titled “#theJayZclass”. This digital humanities course positions the prolific rapper in a broader literary continuum of autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works.
Kenton attended Morehouse College for his undergraduate studies and received his Bachelor’s degree in 2010, graduating Magna Cum-Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Five years after his college graduation, Kenton received a PhD in English from the University of Kansas.
As an undergraduate and graduate student, Kenton organized digital archives while serving as a research assistant at both Vanderbilt University's Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center in Nashville, Tennessee and Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2009, Kenton, as the received a Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Fellowship and spent the summer living and working in Harlem. While studying at the University of Kansas, Kenton served as the digital initiative coordinator for the Project on the History of Black Writing (HBW). In this position, Kenton founded the African American literary blog and oversaw digital projects which explored the HBW’s robust collection of over 1,000 Black novels.
Kenton’s track record shows his commitment to pioneering digital-based research. Therefore, his ongoing work ensures that data analytics, text-mining, and mapping software are not just short-term trends, but instead, long-term components in the literary and Black Studies courses.