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The Essence of Res(ex)pectability: Black Women's Negotiation of Black Femininity in Rap Music and Music Video

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Shanara R. Reid-Brinkley
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 236–260.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.236
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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Figure 3. Still from the music video for “Jihadageddon,” released 2018. Image courtesy of Laylatul Qadr.

Still from the music video for “Jihadageddon,” released 2018. Image courtes...

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Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 3. Still from the music video for “Jihadageddon,” released 2018. Image courtesy of Laylatul Qadr. More
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Introduction: Representin': Women, Hip-Hop, and Popular Music

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Janell Hobson, R. Dianne Bartlow
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 1–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.1
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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“Drop It Like It's Hot”: Culture Industry Laborers and Their Perspectives on Rap Music Video Production

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Mako Fitts
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 211–235.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.211
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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Women, Pop Music, and Pornography

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Meredith LeVande
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 293–321.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.293
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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Las Krudas, Spatial Practice, and the Performance of Diaspora

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Ronni Armstead
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 130–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.130
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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Still

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Ayanah Moor
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 205–210.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.205
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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“Why Must All Girls Want to be Flag Women?”: Postcolonial Sexualities, National Reception, and Caribbean Soca Performance

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Samantha Pinto
Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 137–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/mer.2009.10.1.137
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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Panther Teacher: Sarah Webster Fabio’s Black Power

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Michael J. New
Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 51–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-6955153
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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“All That You Can't Leave Behind”: Black Female Soul Singing and the Politics of Surrogation in the Age of Catastrophe

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Daphne A. Brooks
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.180
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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Hotep and Hip-Hop: Can Black Muslim Women Be Down with Hip-Hop?

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Anaya McMurray
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 74–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.74
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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Transnational Adoption and Life-Writing: Oppressed Voices in Jane Jeong Trenka's The Language of Blood

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Ina C. Seethaler
Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 79–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.13.2.05
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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A Black Feminist Interpretation: Reading Life, Pedagogy, and Emilie

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Conra D. Gist
Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 245–268.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.15.1.13
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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“All That You Can’t Leave Behind”: Surrogation and Black Female Soul Singing in the Age of Catastrophe

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Daphne A. Brooks
Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8565979
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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Colectiva Feminista en Construcción: Building a Transnational Feminist Pedagogy

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Aurora Santiago Ortiz
Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 439–464.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-11266396
Published: 01 October 2024
... include the rewriting of Christmas songs and plenas , an Afro Puerto Rican musical genre, and their Radical Feminist School, a political education space open to nonmembers. Through these pedagogical interventions La Cole simultaneously calls attention to the ways state and structural gender-based violence...
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The Erotic and the Pornographic in Chicana Rap: JV vs. Ms. Sancha

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Beauty Bragg, Pancho McFarland
Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 1–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2007.7.2.1
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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Meri Awaaz Suno : Women, Vocality, and Nation in Hindi Cinema

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Pavitra Sundar
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 144–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.144
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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“Like an Old Soul Record”: Black Feminism, Queer Sexuality, and the Hip-Hop Generation

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Andreana Clay
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 53–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.53
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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La Reina de la Fusión: Xiomara Fortuna Coming of Age in the Dominican Republic

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Rachel Afi Quinn
Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9554123
Published: 01 April 2022
... Smith College 2022 Dominican black music Xiomara Fortuna I am Xiomara Fortuna. I was born in Monte Cristi at the border with Haiti—the Dominican Republic and Haiti—where I lived my early years. I lived my first 19 years there in Monte Cristi. I never left the community until age 19, when...
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Preface

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Paula J. Giddings
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): v.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8.1.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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