Musicology : The Key Concepts. There seems to be a trend of disregarding ethics, which could potentially go back to the original environment rap and hip-hop was founded in (Weitzer). So we call ourselves Hip Hop Generation Feminists, because while many of us appreciate the culture and the music, we do not have a blind allegiance to it, nor is our feminism solely or in many cases even primarily defined by Hip Hop. Chunn, D. (2007). As a science educator, I am passionate about minority representation in and access to the sciences. We place more focus on his music than we do on his history as an abuser. While the men are praised in the public sphere, their victims are often accused of lying and exaggerating. He pleaded not guilty, and his trial, due to be held on the 5 October, has just been postponed – with no set rescheduled date. The majority of hip hop consumers are suburban whites, "the rise in rap/hip hop was driven primarily by the sale of images and stories of black ghetto life to white youth (Rose, 2008, p.4)." "The co-optation of twerking coupled with its decontextualized deployments in mass media also mirrors histories of cultural appropriation, hyper-sexualization of Black women and girls, and the demonization and devaluation of Black cultural forms and social practices performed by Black people" (Lindsey 60).While Lindsey never explicitly states her vision, it is clear that she wants hip-hop to move away from the misogyny and sexism it is known for and for women and girls to both develop new music and to think critically about the music they listen to. This means that teaching women and girls media literacy will help them recognize the misogyny and sexism in music but not stop them from enjoying the genre; which may lead to more of these women and girls to either move towards music, in the same genre, that is less or not misogynistic or to create music that does not have these themes of misogyny. "Brown argues that we do not hear Black girls or their truths because their sound is at best misunderstood, and at worst, framed as problematic.
When we do this in such a public light, what message are we giving to men? Hip Hop group TLC. Its content analyzes the subversive prevalence of rap in our culture, and its effects on both adolescent men and women. Possible reasons for differing levels of sexism as well as potential social implications of sexism in music again, go back to what the crowd wants (Neff). I chose to focus on Lindsey's descriptions of "musical Blackness" and hip-hop education because those ideas have the most relevance to my current time and location.
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She specializes in Black feminist theory, women's history, and popular culture studies along with work in critical race and gender theory, sexual politics, and African diaspora studies (Treva Lindsey). However, Hip-Hop feminism is changing the way we look at Hip-Hop, and what it’s been stereotyped as before. R. Weitzer conducted a study that assessed the portrayal of women in a representative sample of 403 rap songs. London, Centre for Health and Gender Equity, 1999Beard, David; Gload, Kenneth. Lindsey, Treva. However he still remains one of the top chart rappers to date. However, in this time Onfrey’s music has only flourished. In, she wrote an entire chapter on apologies, and explained that “it takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.” However, female rappers have tried to reclaim their music by empowering women. In D. Chunn, S. Boyd, & H. Lessard (Eds. These stories of Kelly are normalized by the media, in favor of covering his topchart songs. It’s becoming more evident through female rappers such as Cardi B and Nicki Minaj that being unapologetically yourself is important now more than ever for the female consciousness. The rapper Nas, considered one of the greats, challenged the condition of the art form when he titled his latest album "Hip-Hop is Dead." Among American university students, for both men and women, support for feminist ideas is more common than self-identification as a feminist.Pro-feminism is the support of feminism without implying that the supporter is a member of the feminist movement. We need more female voices in hip-hop, making catchy songs about their own experiences. "When Dr. Cantwell, a humanities teacher at the Webb school was asked about her thoughts surrounding feminism and hip-hop, she offered the insightful advice that it’s not a black and white issue in terms of feminism and how it relates to hip-hop. “Keepin’ It Real: A Generational Commentary on Kimberly Springer’s ‘Third Wave Black Feminism?’” Roberts, Robin (1994).