Goal 1: Demonstrate that hip-hop lyrics can be analyzed as literary texts in an academic setting by treating song lyrics like written literature.
Audience: professors
DH connection: shows how Digital Humanities expands traditional ideas of literature by using digital tools to study music as text.
Goal 2: Identify patterns in Jay-Z’s music by analyzing recurring themes and word usage across songs.
Audience: students
DH connection: uses digital methods to organize and analyze cultural data in a structured way.
Documentation assessment: The project clearly organizes lyrics and themes into sections, making the analysis easy to follow, but it does not fully explain all of its data collection or analysis steps.
Best Practices: Clear project goals but needs work on how the process taken to complete goals.
