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oapen-20.500.12657-591262022-11-02T03:08:49Z Queer Voices in Hip Hop Kehrer, Lauron J. Hip hop, rap, LGBTQ, Black studies, queer, popular music, trans, gay, butch, masculinity, performance, bounce, Ballroom, New Orleans, rapper, gay rap, race, gender, sexuality, sampling bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music::AVG Music: styles & genres::AVGF Light orchestral & big band music bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSK Gay & Lesbian studies Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapper as a Black, masculine, heterosexual, cisgender man who enacts a narrative of struggle and success. In Queer Voices in Hip Hop, Lauron J. Kehrer turns our attention to openly queer and trans rappers and positions them within a longer Black queer musical lineage. Combining musical, textual, and visual analysis with reception history, this book reclaims queer involvement in hip hop by tracing the genre’s beginnings within Black and Latinx queer music-making practices and spaces, demonstrating that queer and trans rappers draw on Ballroom and other cultural expressions particular to queer and trans communities of color in their work in order to articulate their subject positions. By centering the performances of openly queer and trans artists of color, Queer Voices in Hip Hop reclaims their work as essential to the development and persistence of hip hop in the United States as it tells the story of hip hop’s queer roots. 2022-11-01T10:02:44Z 2022-11-01T10:02:44Z 2022 book 9780472075683 9780472055685 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59126 eng Tracking Pop application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780472903016.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.11306619 10.3998/mpub.11306619 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 9780472075683 9780472055685 165 open access
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Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapper as a Black, masculine, heterosexual, cisgender man who enacts a narrative of struggle and success. In Queer Voices in Hip Hop, Lauron J. Kehrer turns our attention to openly queer and trans rappers and positions them within a longer Black queer musical lineage. Combining musical, textual, and visual analysis with reception history, this book reclaims queer involvement in hip hop by tracing the genre’s beginnings within Black and Latinx queer music-making practices and spaces, demonstrating that queer and trans rappers draw on Ballroom and other cultural expressions particular to queer and trans communities of color in their work in order to articulate their subject positions. By centering the performances of openly queer and trans artists of color, Queer Voices in Hip Hop reclaims their work as essential to the development and persistence of hip hop in the United States as it tells the story of hip hop’s queer roots.
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