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Empowering self, making choices, creating spaces : black female identity via rap music performance

Article: Anglais. Référence bibliographique
Auteur(s)
Keyes, Cheryl L.
Titre
Empowering self, making choices, creating spaces : black female identity via rap music performance / Cheryl L. Keyes
En
Journal of American Folklore, 113, 449, 2000, 255-269
Thèmes
Freestyle Rap
Typologie
Article
ISBN / ISSN
0021-8715
Critics and scholars have often associated rap music with urban male culture. However, females have been involved in the history of this music since its early years. This article explores Black women's contribution to and role in shaping rap music. In examining female rappers, this study engages an interdisciplinary model that employs cultural studies, feminist theory, and mass mediation theory of popular culture, and it employs an ethnographic concept, the "interpretive community," in its analysis.