When Hip Hop Unmasks Masculinity, Part 1
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- We continue our music series this week! This is part 1 of Professors Joseph Ewoodzie and Tyler Bunzey gracing the pod to talk gender in hip hop.
- Samantha talks everyone through alternative representations of masculinity in hip hop.
- How does including classical instruments in hip hop impact our view of the genre?
- How does the advent of rappers with different sexualities and gender performances into the mainstream impact hip hop now?
- Is it probable that there were LGBTQ rappers at the inception of hip hop? Dr. Joseph Ewoodzie weighs in…
- We continue to examine which voices who are valued in hip hop by zooming out and considering all of its historical influences.
- Tyler Bunzey offers some important cultural context around Southern rappers and the performance of gender in hip hop – how do different US cultures shape that performance within the genre?
- He also breaks down how gender and sexuality are racialized – why is queerness considered to be a white thing if Marsha P Johnson was at the forefront of LGBTQ rights movement?
Referenced on this episode:
- Interview with Black Violin
- Black Violin’s “Stereotypes”
- Tyler Bunzey’s Hip Hop Sublime theory
- Dr. Ewoodzie’s seminal book Break Beats in the Bronx
- Big Freedia challenges hip hop as we know it
- Daphne Brooks’s Liner Notes for the Revolution
- Check out our last Beneath the MASK 🎭
COMPANION PIECES:
- Sugar Hill Band? Capitalism and MASKulinity in Hip Hop
- MASKulinity is Making Some People a Lot of Money
- Unpopular opinion on Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer
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