Wrecking rap's conventions: the cultural production of three daring Detroit emcees
| Autor: | Rebekah Farrugia, Kellie D. Hay |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cultural Studies
030506 rehabilitation 050402 sociology Hegemony business.industry 05 social sciences Media studies Popular culture Context (language use) Musical 03 medical and health sciences Scholarship 0504 sociology Ethnography Narrative Music industry Sociology 0305 other medical science business Music |
| Zdroj: | Popular Music. 37:63-80 |
| ISSN: | 1474-0095 0261-1430 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0261143017000575 |
| Popis: | This article profiles the music of three politically motivated hip hop emcees. It combines textual and musicological analysis with ethnographic data to examine the ways in which these women use music to empower themselves and to contribute to meaningful, positive change in post-industrial, post-bankruptcy Detroit. These narratives are significant because they combat the dominant, hegemonic two-dimensional representations of African American women that are epitomised in commercial hip hop and popular culture at large. Further, in a context where art and activism are connected, their work challenges the current controlling images and sexual scripts that dominate both commercial music industry representations and scholarship on women in hip hop. The artists we profile exemplify a new kind of musical movement where women are agents and creative solutionaries. At times, they are explicitly critical of the narrow range of black womanhood presented in popular culture and in other instances, they focus on issues such as the environment, race relations, racialized bodies, poverty and abuse, all the while challenging the hip hop industry and popular culture norms that communicate who black women are and who they should be. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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