J cole biography book

ISBN:

9781532152146

Series/Set:

Hip-Hop Artists

Copyright:

2018

Division:

Abdo Publishing

Imprint:

Essential Library

Grade Range:

6-12

ATOS Level:

NOT AR

Dewey Number(s):

782.421649

Kirsten Zemke

Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music Theory and Politics of Ambiguity, 2018

This chapter explores the theoretical, musical and political contexts of four black gay American rappers: Cakes da Killa, Le1f, Mykki Blanco and Zebra Katz. Through wildly different personae, their atypical gender performances destabilize normative gender and sexuality binaries, interrogating and presenting challenges to both homonormativity and heteronormativity within gay, black and mainstream cultures. These identity performances necessitate considered distillations of theory around black masculinity, hip-hop culture, hip-hop homophobia, black gay culture, and queer theory. In an attempt to avoid a reductionist approach through labelling, we instead employ the term “fierceness”, from an underground black and Latinx gay cultural movement called “Ball culture”, as an a

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