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...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...-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...

... there is contention over the nature and potential of hip-hop 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...

...-removed and doesn’t interact with who they are as a person. (Odunlami 2016 ) In her song “Realtalk” Dope Saint Jude raps, “Your brand of feminism, to my world, is so outdated / Please update it for the rappers, for the fly girls, for the girls who like to f*ck / For the sisters, for the mothers...

... 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...

... followed the video's success with the all-black genre series MyBabyGotBack(1992-2007),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...

... and the Pornographic in Chicana Rap," by Beauty Bragg and Pancho McFarland, uses sexuality in popular culture to construct transnational bridges. The authors examine the music of]V and Ms. Sancha, two female artists of Mexican descent, whose distinct approaches become a discourse on the contested meaning offemale...

... 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...

... 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,” such a worldwide smash, and which seems also to merely reiterate the virtuosic gangsta-flow...

... 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...

.... Copyright @ 2018 Smith College. doi: 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...

..., 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...

... generation is totally different,” he adds. “Young people are saying they’d rather go to jail, or to the army and risk getting killed. And their anger is coming out in hip hop.” In 1986, Sarah White was the mother of a four-year-old son. Going into the army, selling crack, or rapping were not options...

... 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...

... youth feel" (534). Still, as they explain, "The representation of those symbols in exclusively male form, the class bias and essentialism of Afrocentricity and, in the case of rap, the accompanying denigration of black women, dull the radical edge that these modes of cultural expression might otherwise...