Chapter 4 “Trappin’ Ain’t Shit to Me”: How Undergraduate Students Construct Meaning Around Race, Gender, and Sexuality Within Hip-Hop

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-85
Author(s):  
Andrea N. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Construct Meaning

The Rise and Rise of K-Pop

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Howard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Central Component ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Success

K-pop, Korean popular music, is a central component in Korea’s cultural exports. It helps brand Korea, and through sponsorships and tie-ups, generates attention for Korea that goes well beyond the music and media industries. This essay traces the history of Korean popular music, from its emergence in the early decades of the twentieth century, through the influence of America on South Korea’s cultural development and the assimilation of genres such as rap, reggae, punk, and hip hop, to the international success of Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ and the idol group BTS. It explores the rise of entertainment companies, how they overcame the digital challenge, and how their use of restrictive contracts created today’s cultural economy. It introduces issues of gender and sexuality, and outlines how music videos and social media have been used to leverage fandom.

Framing Sympathy-Worthiness: Informal Support and the Use of Disclosure Myths

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-183
Author(s):  
Wayne C. Rivera-Cuadrado
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Negative Outcomes ◽  
Social Proximity ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Construct Meaning

Research on sexual violence has shown that social support sources can have both positive and negative outcomes for victims’ health. Yet few studies examine how informal supporters construct meaning from initial disclosure experiences to produce these outcomes. Using a social constructionist framework, I analyze 30 in-depth interviews with friends, family members, and partners who received disclosures of sexual violence. I examine how confidants construct meaning from initial disclosures to negotiate and construct victims’ “sympathy-worthiness”. Disclosure recipients express several facilitators and obstacles to constructing victims as sympathetic that draw on notions about their social proximity to victims, expectations of assault based on gender and sexuality, disclosure temporality, trauma visibility, and victims’ post-disclosure “recovery-work.” I argue these positionings contribute to, and draw upon, “disclosure myths” that frame confidants’ differential interpretations of victims’ narratives, resulting in both the provision and denial of support.

Religion-in-the-Making: Media, Culture and Art/Activism as Producing Religion from the Critical Perspectives of Gender and Sexuality

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-426
Author(s):  
Nella van den Brandt
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Art Activism ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Critical Perspectives

This article contributes to the study of media, religion and culture from the perspective of gender and sexuality. It argues that media and culture need to be considered as locations in which ‘other stories’ about religion, gender and sexuality are potentially being produced. It shows that various types of media and visual artefacts have different modes of ‘making’ religion. It coins ‘religion-in-the-making’ and uses this concept to focus on two cultural productions that construct/convey ‘other’ religious narratives starting from female and queer bodies: the Belgian fictional movie Le Tout Nouveau Testament and the Al Jazeera biographical documentary Hip-Hop Hijabis.

The Ghosts Got You

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elliot H. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Copyright Infringement ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Digital Sampling ◽  
Technical Practice ◽  
The Social

This article examines the rather unknown digital sampling practice known as ghosting, a way of sampling a recording without providing its auditory evidence, in order to consider the musical and extramusical implications of sampling in hip hop. It uses the Timbaland-produced recordings of Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack” and Nelly Furtado’s “Say It Right” as examples of ghosting that not only illuminate the ways in which sample-based hip hop producers maintain hip hop’s tradition of sampling without concern of violating copyright infringement but also illustrate how sampling establishes queer spatiotemporal interfaces between bodies, technology, and the social formations of race, gender, and sexuality. In all, this chapter posits that ghosting complicates the previous ways in which scholars, critics, and general listeners have come to understand and think about sampling as purely a technical practice; instead, ghosting points to how we must consider sampling’s sociocultural, and especially intersectional, import.

scholarly journals Translating Chicana Rap: Snow Tha Product

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Adriana Onita
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Performative Language ◽  
Definition Of

This project examines rap lyrics, interviews, and music videos by Chicana artist Snow Tha Product to show how rap has been culturally translated, performed, and appropriated by females in order to “flip the script,” or subvert the dichotomous model of female sexuality that has been imposed upon them. Weaving insights from three academic fields (cultural translation, Chican@ studies, and hip-hop feminism), this paper also aims to creatively expand the definition of translation by positioning rap music as a performative language in its own right, capable of encoding and translating complex cultural issues related to race, gender, and sexuality.

Transcultural Voices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaspal Naveel Singh
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
Linguistic Ethnography ◽  
Discourse Studies

This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop culture in Delhi, India. Through a combination of linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics and discourse studies, the book addresses issues including gender and sexuality, identity construction and global culture.

Promiscuous πόρναι, Bad Bitches, and Misogynistic Masculinities: A Queer, Imperial-Critical Analysis of Revelation and Rap

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-149
Author(s):  
O’neil Van Horn
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
First Order ◽  
Resistance Literature ◽  
Hip Hop Music ◽  
Drag Kings ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract If the Book of Revelation is anti-imperial resistance literature of the first order, hip-hop music is its contemporary equivalent – with Kendrick Lamar as one of its most politically sensitized “prophets.” I will explore the intersections, commonalities, and divergences between Revelation 17-18 and rapper Kendrick’s “For Sale? (Interlude),” especially regarding notions of empire, gender, and sexuality. I will draw connections between the characters of “For Sale” – Kendrick and Lucy – and those of Revelation 17-18 – John of Patmos and Babylon. This analysis will reveal the relationship between anti-imperial rhetoric and the troubling “effemination” of empire. I contend that Babylon and Lucy are both figures “in drag,” dis/closing the prevailing imperial and misogynistic forces of their respective cultures. This queer interpretation, playing off Catherine Keller’s and Stephen D. Moore’s reading of the text and J. Jack Halberstam’s study of drag kings, seeks to unveil the hypermasculine performances in both Revelation and contemporary hip-hop culture.

Where in the world is the hip hop nation?

Popular Music ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-245
Author(s):  
Inez H. Templeton
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
The World
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