Sistah MC Droppin' Rhymes with a Beat: Rap, Rhetoric and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9783639124859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 204 str.

Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas

Opis

For over three decades rap music has served as thelyrical mouthpiece for another disenfranchisedsegment of the African American society-- young Blackwomen. Although rap has been largely a male dominatedgenre, Black women have also used it to "drop theirrhymes" and articulately channel resistance via theirown funky beat. This book outlines the challengesAfrican American women have faced in their collectivehistoric quest to establish and sustain their ownvoice and ultimately reveals that using lyricsas rhetoric has helped African American womenestablish and maintain such a voice. This workincludes a line by line examination of 260 rap songsperformed by six popular female rap/hip hop soloartists: MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Lauryn Hill, LilKim, Missy Elliot and Eve. Additionally 300 youngAfrican American females took part in a survey toweigh in on a commonly held perception that blackfemale rappers served as spokeswomen for youngAfrican American females. Popular music enthusiastsand hip-hop purists/scholars will find this bookgives a new empirical twist on examining blackwomens postmodern resistance in a genre borne out ofresistance.

O autorze

Elizabeth (Liz) F. Desnoyers-Colas received her PhD in
Communication from Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
She is currently the Communication Track Coordinator for the
Master of Arts in Liberal and Professional Studies (MALPS)
Program at Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah Georgia.