Both episodes four and five of The Get Down and the reading, (Re)building the cypher; Fulfilling the Promise of Hip Hop Liberation, touch upon the influence that youth have in hip hop. In The Get Down, you see various scenes where Mylene, an aspiring Disco artist and daughter of a pastor, struggle to follow her… Continue reading
“But the transient alliances that hip-hoppers imagined across boundaries of class, race, and nation gave them the resources and the platform they needed to tell their stories and provided the grounds for their locally based political actions” (Kuttner, White-Hammond). This is the epitome of the overall theme The Get Down and the goal of these… Continue reading
The article that spoke to me the most from this section was the Kalamka & West piece. Their effort to upend the common narrative that queerness in Hip-Hop is illuminating to me. I had, embarrassingly, never heard of the “homo-hop” movement and had assumed that open queerness in Hip-Hop, specifically rap music, was relatively new.… Continue reading
The unit on the History of Hip-Hop sparked a few thoughts within me. The first, comes as a response to the Dimitriadis piece. In it, Dimitriadis points to a common “text” to which Urban youth can draw from to establish some sort of sense of themselves in relation to the world. These texts, be they… Continue reading
Tahjay Louis Profesora Pabon WOM-324 Blog Post #3 11 October 2019 While the intersections between feminism and hip hop has become undeniable with artists such as Lizzo, Princess Nokia and Angel Haze becoming more visible in the mainstream, hip hop has always been a platform for feminist activism since its conception in the underground. Whether… Continue reading
As hip hop created its reputation over the years, it was at first difficult to understand how something so blatantly misogynistic could benefit women in any type of way. However, what I appreciated about this section was it effectively breaking those stereotypes and addressing the fact that the stereotypical “white feminism” is not be the… Continue reading
Aja Brandt Blog Post #3 WOM324 )ctober 11 2019 The readings concerning Feminism and Hip Hop we read and discussed were interesting to say the least. In fact more than a few were mindblowing to me. I think it’s best explained with the line from The Crunk Feminist Collective. “Hip Hop Generation Feminism: Feminism… Continue reading
The beginning of “The Crunk” states it best. “Black feminism taught us to love ourselves, to fight for our revolution and to prioritize our own freedom. Hip Hop gave us something to bop our heads to and shake our hips to.” Feminism allows women to express themselves anyway they damn well please with no restrictions.… Continue reading
I have found this section to be illuminating on a number of topics. The first topic that made me think about, and question, my stance on the matter was the idea of owning one’s sexuality vs. performing sexuality for a male audience. Now, my previous stance on the issue was that it is pretty much… Continue reading
Hip Hop Feminism is an interesting topic as hip hop culture and feminism both play integrated roles within one another. Throughout the years and development of hip hop, these concepts have been explored and challenged amongst feminists and even society as a whole. Women are often sexualized (and depending on one’s viewpoints and opinions on… Continue reading
