Black masculinity and hip-hop music : black gay men who rap / Xinling Li.
2019
ML3470 .L5 2019
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Title
Black masculinity and hip-hop music : black gay men who rap / Xinling Li.
ISBN
9811335133 (electronic book)
9789811335136 (electronic bk.)
9811335125
9789811335129
9789811335136 (electronic bk.)
9811335125
9789811335129
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 179 pages)
Call Number
ML3470 .L5 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
780.8664
Summary
This book offers an interdisciplinary study of hip-hop music written and performed by rappers who happen to be out black gay men. It examines the storytelling mechanisms of gay themed lyrics, and how these form protests and become enabling tools for (black) gay men to discuss issues such as living on the down-low and HIV/AIDS. It considers how the biased promotion of feminised gay male artists/characters in mainstream entertainment industry has rendered masculinity an exclusively male heterosexual property, providing a representational framework for men to identify with a form of "homosexual masculinity"--One that is constructed without having to either victimise anything feminine or necessarily convert to femininity. The book makes a strong case that it is possible for individuals (like gay rappers) to perform masculinity against masculinity, and open up a new way of striving for gender equality.-- Provided by publisher.
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Black Masculinity and Hip-Hop Music : Black Gay Men Who Rap.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Black masculinity, homosexuality and hip-hop music
The commoditisation of hip-hop music and queerness
Revelations from black gay men who rap
Facing challenges
Homosexual masculinity
Conclusion.
Black masculinity, homosexuality and hip-hop music
The commoditisation of hip-hop music and queerness
Revelations from black gay men who rap
Facing challenges
Homosexual masculinity
Conclusion.