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      Unit Overview                
                         

 

Sex and sexuality

            
                     
   

Sex and Sexuality - 2 Sessions

Group Presentation September 28
Is hip hop seem to be obsessed with depictions of sex and sexuality? What kinds of depictions are most prevalent? What depictions are resisted by hedz, and why? How do sex and sexuality feed hip hop into world markets?

            
                         
      Unit Assignments              
                         
      view: Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip Hop Head Weighs In On Mahood in Hip-Hop Culture by Byron Hurt (2005) Monday September 25 7pm 1-134          
                         
      read: “Hip Hop Sexualities” by DeFrantz, in Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies, Steven Seidman, Chet Meeks, Nancy Fischer, editors, New York: Routledge Press, 2006.        
                         
      read: “Daughters of the Blues: Women, Race, and Class Representation in Rap Music Performance” by Cheryl Keyes in Rap Music and Street Consciousness Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002, pp. 186-209.
                         
      read: "Confessions of a Hip Hop Critic" by dream hampton in Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap edited by Evelyn McDonnell and Ann Powers, New York: Cooper Square Pres, 1999, pp. 455-458.
                         
      read: "Butta Pecan Mamis” by Raquel Z. Rivera in New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone New York: Palgrave, 2003), pp 127-149.
                         
      listen: Hard Core Lil Kim (1996)        
                         
      listen: Cookie Meshell Ndegeocello (2002)