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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): 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): 236–260.
Published: 01 September 2008
... public discussion by black women of the issue of misogyny in rap's portrayal of black women is long overdue, the magazine published a year-long series of articles as part of its “Take Back the Music” campaign. More interesting than the series of articles produced by the magazine is the overwhelming...
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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 (2023) 22 (1): 204–228.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Natalia A. Koutsougera Abstract This article provides a socio-anthropological portrayal of the hip-hop narrational mosaics in Greece through the intertemporal exploration of two hip-hop scenes: the rap scene and the hip-hop dance scene. It explores the gray and contested zones of a local hip-hop...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 130–143.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Habana, Las Krudas borrow from shared diasporic resources (hip-hop culture/rap music, African drum rhythms and chants) when fashioning a musical aesthetic that allows for the articulation of the “local” as well as the “global.” Finally, I move beyond Foucault's spatial model of disciplinary power...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 74–92.
Published: 01 September 2008
...-hop, I do not consider black Muslim women and rap music, but black Muslim women who create music and who are a part of the hip-hop generation Kitwana describes. Erykah Badu, Eve,and I are three black women who are a part of the hip- 76 MERIDIANS 8:1 hop generation and who construct improvisation zones...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 19–52.
Published: 01 September 2008
... as progressive political practice (Lipsitz 1998; Kitwana 2002; Cole and GuySheftall 2003; Bynoe 2004; Kitwana 2004), some cultural analysts read parts of hip-hop culture and rap music as providing political analysisalthough at times problematic-about racist, sexist, economic, police, and community violence...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 383–400.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of these songs focus on emotional struggle, highlighting the impact of sexism and patriarchy. In “Wakilisha Madame,” Nazizi and Rah P celebrate women in East Africa and call for them to be strong, saying that they are in solidarity with these women. In the song “Soeur” (“Little Sister”), Moona (Senegal) raps...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 September 2008
... as an emcee with Funky Four+ One, then later joined Lisa Lee and Debbie Dee to form Us Girls in the early 1980s. The release of"Square Biz" by R& B singer Teena Marie in 1981is among the earliest examples of rapping. Blondie, best known for her performances in punk rock, also released that same year the hit...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 261–292.
Published: 01 September 2008
...),named after the controversial Sir Mix-a-Lotrap song BabyGotBack(1991).As Sir Mixa-Lot raps, "I like big butts," the song celebrates black women's voluptuous butts as symbols of desirability and beauty, a radical revision of the historical representation ofblack women's butts as loci of their deviance...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2007
.... More broadly, the essay is also a meditation on how the universal, culturally non-exclusive experience of rape can be employed as a common "language" to facilitate transnational feminist solidarity between women of different cultures. Similarily, essay "The Erotic and the Pornographic in Chicana Rap...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 161–168.
Published: 01 September 2014
... a "sex tape." Youread that correctly. Recently, in an Internet launch of his new YouTube channel, All Def Digital, rap media mogul Russell Simmons featured a failed comedic video titled "Harriet Tubman SexTape"-the first in the line-up of this new series. It didn't take long for black audiences on social...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of a southern heroine who waxes paranoid and obsessive over her desire for on- and off-screen love interest rap mogul Jay-Z, and at the song itself, which on the surface does little more than reproduce both the best of the horn-driven arrangements that made Knowles’s biggest single to date, “Crazy in Love...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
Published: 01 September 2008
... on the run (Beyonce 2006a). Online message boards and pop music critics alike expressed shock and disappointment with this lead single (called "flat" by some)-both at its video promotion of a southern heroine who waxes paranoid and obsessive overher desire for on- and off-screen loveinterest rap mogul Jay-Z...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
...: to.2979/meridians.16.2.17 363 My Positionality I've been particularly moved by the poetry of Nikki Giovanni, the ethnographies crafted by Zora Neale Hurston, the stories told by Sista Souljah, the song lyrics of Erykah Badu and the rap lyrics of Jean Grae. Because of these iterations of Black girlhood...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 174–204.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., Biting the Infected Wound: The Truth by October 6 Women] Bangkok: Khana Kammakan Rap Khawmoon le Seup Phayan Heitkan 6 Tulakhom 2519. Scott, Joan Wallach. 1988. Genderandthe PoliticsofHistory. New York: Columbia University Press. Sitthiket, Vasan. 2003. Personal Interview. 26 May. Sopha, Chirunuch. 2003...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 155–165.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., selling crack, or rapping were not options for her. What was an option was signing the union card that her co-worker, Mary Young, had received in the mail. “Things began to move real quick from there,” recalls Sarah, in conversations we had in her car, at the office, and in her home over the course of two...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 278–288.
Published: 01 March 2003
... White was the mother of a four-year-old son. Going into the army, selling crack, or rapping were not options for her. What was an option was signing the union card that her co-worker, Mary Young, had received in the mail. "Things began to move real quick from there," recalls Sarah, in conversations we...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 31–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
... familiar and profitable child-saving storylines by reproducing the fear of stranger danger and the requirement of child protection from external enemies (Best 1990; Rapping 2003). When mass media represents violence against children, it more frequently depicts and sensationalizes stranger assault cases...
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