Quiz 11

Question 1

Hip hop beyond beats & rhythms

Answer 1

Writer → Bryan hurt
Produce → Bryon hurt & Sabrina Gordon
2006, starring : bust-a rhymes, chuck d , clipse, Doug e, fresh, fat Joe, jadakiss, m-1, mos def, Talib kweli

Question 2

By way of example, Michael Eric dyson

Answer 2

Points to the early years of America, the expansion of the frontier & manner in which guns equated w/ manhood & ability to care & protect family

Question 3

Ability to use words skilfully & aggressively is central to being masculine in hiphop world

Answer 3

B/c its ability to survive the violence that is much part of young, poor + working class men lives

Question 4

Rap grew out of a long tradition of male boasting in African American culture

Answer 4

A tradition of boys & men fighting for respect by projecting & proclaiming their own power t ability while simultaneously denigrating other men

Question 5

Jackson Katz argues that mats who feel powerless -particularly MOC & working class white man often turn to their own bodies as source of power

Answer 5

Men w/ other power sources (economic, social, political ) don’t have need to adopt this kind of hyper- aggressive physical posture

Question 6

Violence is so much a part of American

Culture that we’ve become desensitized to it

Answer 6

Found in rap, movies, sports, video games, & real-world politics of militarism and war

Question 7

Chuck d argues that instead of challenging notion that black male violence is natural

Answer 7

the industries that produce popular music culture actually exploit stories & images of Black Death for profit

Question 8

These images not unique to hip hop. Objectified women bodies everywhere

Answer 8

→ in American culture, films, advertisements, tv programs

→ however, across the landscape of music video, this is virtually the only vision of women available

Question 9

Beverly guy-shetfall argues that black people don’t believe sexism is as urgent a social issue as racism

Answer 9

Michael Eric dyson, points out both black men & women are victimized by sexism & racism

Question 10

1/4 black women are raped after the age of 18 Black women are 35% more likely to be assaulted than yt women

Answer 10

More than took women assaulted en USA every year, 1 woman every 45 seconds. 61% of victims are under 18

Question 11

Guy - shetfall suggests that women un rap videos are participating in degradation & commodification of women

Answer 11

Rapper, jadakiss, says rap shouldn’t be taken seriously bc its “just entertainment” & argued women are some of the biggest fans of rap music that has lyrics of “bitches & ho’s” and they like hearing those words

Question 12

Hurts says we’ve become desensitized to the sexism, misogyny & sexual objectification of rap

Answer 12

& this has blinded us to how demeaning & harmful it really is

Question 13

In rap, men refer to other men by demeaning feminized terms like “bitch”

Answer 13

Man being called feminine name is greatest insult that can be inflicted. Hurt believes that this reflects deep insecurity that men have about their masculinity

Question 14

Michael Eric dyson points out that this is also double assault

Answer 14

Attack on women through demeaning language & On any type of masculinity that doesn’t fit the stereotypical hypermasculine image

Question 15

Feminizing men for purpose of insult does not just happen in hip hop

Answer 15

Throughout American culture; media, interpersonal interactions & world of politics

Question 16

Recording industry profits from selling images of violent, materialistic, sexist black masculinity

Answer 16

By turning misery of black poverty into a commodity that benefits white-owned corporations

Question 17

In previous decades, when there were still many small, independent record labels, was easier for more diverse and positive artists to obtain recording contracts + get music to public

Answer 17

Former president of def Jam records told hurt that the rise of so-called “gangsta” rap as the dominant sub- genre coincided with the takeover of independent labels by major corps

Question 18

White fans of hiphop interviewed by Hurt admitted they know little about African American culture beyond what they see in recordings & videos

Answer 18

Admitted music tends to reinforce negative stereotypes of blacks as violent, sexually predatory & obsessed with material goods

Question 19

Chuck d., of the political rap group public enemy

Answer 19

Called BET “ the cancer of black manhood in the world” b/c of their promotion of rigid stereotypes of greedy evident, sexist black men

Question 20

chuckD points out that individual rappers cannot be blamed for what is really a state of affairs bought on by recording industry

Answer 20

Artists create what they know industry will support. Industry supports what glamorizes sexism, violence not music that is political or includes positive / anti-corporate messages

Question 21

Industry controlled by white-owned corporations

Answer 21

Therefore white businessmen make decision about what rap music gets released and promoted