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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 236–260.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Shanara R. Reid-Brinkley Abstract In the late fall of 2004, following the media spectacle created by Spelman College's protest of the misogyny and sexism in the music and videos of rapper Nelly, Essence, a popular black women's magazine, began a campaign to raise awareness. Arguing that a more...
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Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 3. Still from the music video for “Jihadageddon,” released 2018. Image courtesy of Laylatul Qadr.
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 September 2008
... discourse regarding the representation of women in contemporary popular music, and particularly in hip-hop. This issue's three organizing themes-"Hip-Hop (and) Feminism"; "Sight and Sound"; and "Rage against the Machine"-address the debates and intergenerational tensions regarding the liberatory potential...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 211–235.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Mako Fitts Abstract This paper describes results from a qualitative study of the music video production industry and the creative process in rap music video production and artist marketing. Participant responses are presented in three areas: the music video production process, recent trends in rap...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 293–321.
Published: 01 September 2008
... pornographic imagery into the mainstream. Nowhere is this situation more evident than with women in popular music whose images have become increasingly hyper-sexualized. Through various narratives circling women in music, this essay explores how the 1996 Telecommunications Act has made pornographic images...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 130–143.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Ronni Armstead Abstract This essay argues that female rappers Las Krudas are, with their music, engaging in trangressive spatial practice. Las Krudas are especially helping to disrupt the classificatory eye's orientalist gaze—which visually and aurally disciplines space through the distribution...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 205–210.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Ayanah Moor Abstract Images of women surrounding male rap stars in music videos are as common as the jewel-encrusted subject matter of today's rap lyrics. Females are seen in packs hovering around male rap stars, playing the part of enthusiastic cheerleader or die-hard groupie. Rap music videos...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and Blige's work, I examine the politics of black women's pop music culture in relation to the Gulf Coast catastrophe and the extreme marginalization of black women in American sociopolitical culture. I suggest that we look closely at the musical performances of Beyoncé as well as Blige, as each artist's work...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 74–92.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Anaya McMurray Abstract “Black Muslim women and hip-hop? . . . real Muslims don't listen to hip-hop.” For many it is almost unfathomable that black Muslim women would have any involvement with hip-hop music. While several scholars have explored the connections between hip-hop and Islam, hip-hop...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Samantha Pinto Abstract “Why must all girls want to be flag women?” laments one critic regarding what he sees as the infiltration of “Carnival” culture into the performative desires of Indo-Trinidadian women. The intersections of soca, a form of music derived from the traditional Carnival genre...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 51–81.
Published: 01 September 2018
... an international reputation as an essential voice within the Black Arts Movement. She was an early theorist of Black Vernacular English and later extended her work with multimedia by performing with musical accompaniment. In the 1970s she recorded four albums of poetry and music for Folkways Records and published...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Beauty Bragg; Pancho McFarland Abstract The discourse on gender and sexuality in rap music is dominated by the pornographic. Women of color contending with demeaning pornographic images have entered the discourse though many routes. JV and Ms. Sancha exemplify the two predominant approaches...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 144–179.
Published: 01 September 2008
... (or singing) for the nation. The social norms embedded in Lagaan 's female singing voices thus reveal the limits that Hindi film music imposes on the voice of the nation, and vice versa. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 PAVITRA SUNDAR MeriAwaazSuno WomenV, ocalitya, ndNationin HindiCinema Abstract...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 September 2008
...-civil rights era. Grounded in the works of Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Jewelle Gomez, I examine how media representations of Ndegeocello coupled with her lyrics and music demonstrate the complexities and contradictions of “hip-hop feminism.” In particular, the 1990s represent...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of Black women popular music artists whose early twenty-first century recordings and stirring performances addressed the traumas, the challenges, and the spectacular subjugation of Black women who fell victim to brutal disenfranchisement in the midst of the disaster. Beyonce’s B-Day album and Mary J...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 79–98.
Published: 01 March 2016
... imaginary of the altruistic adoption process. This article analyzes how Trenka's stylistic choices, such as a musical and a stand-up comedy routine, capture many Korean adoptees' life experiences. Adoptees like Trenka use life-writing to express a doubled self and to give a platform to those who are rarely...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 245–268.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., articles, video clips, and music lyrics. The lesson plan is also designed to provide students with foundational exposure and meaning making experiences in black feminist thought as research tool and as a system of thought for reading and interpreting texts and the social world. Additionally, this essay...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
Published: 01 April 2022
... here at length, to make space for her storytelling and for her to speak for herself as she does with her music. Captured in this essay may be a different story than the one Fortuna might decide to tell today; most know her to be guarded about her personal life, or perhaps judicious about who she lets...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): v.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Paula J. Giddings Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 PAULA J. GIDDINGS Editor'sPreface I confess that when Janell Hobson and R. Dianne Bartlow, co-editors of "Representin': Women, Hip-Hop, and Popular Music," offered to put together a special issue for Meridians,I was a little skeptical...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 204–228.
Published: 01 April 2023
... ). This lyrical vengefulness is portrayed in YouTube music videos of the tracks in scenes of battles between anarchists and the police, or Athens in flames, through which the crews perform the poetics of a deprived working class or classless subject who resists power regimes. As the intense years of the Greek...
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