Answer these questions:

Analyze a hip-hop video and the lyrics to the song.

a) Have a thesis

b) focus on how race, gender and class are socially constructed

c) How do the images and lyrics relate (illustrate, contrast, obscure)

d) How do the lyrics and video refute, resist, or reiterate stereotypes?

e) Describe and interpret timage and sound–background/location/color scheme/costumes/historical footage/etc.

f) Is your song/video making an argument/statement about Identity/History/Culture/Love etc. What is the big theme?

g) How do the readings on hip-hop relate to your anlayis (cite at least two.)

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“Drop it Like Its Hot: Culture Industry Laborers and their Perspectives on Rap Music Video Production”

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For you comment, please put this article in dialogue with Byron Hurt’s film, and possibly (if it seems relevant) with the global hip-hop presentations (your own or other groups.) In other words, how do they relate? 4-6 sentences.

Have a good weekend, DH

UK Hip Hop:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4455862.stm

Black British Cultural Studies and the Rap on Gangsta

Japanese

Fetishized Blackness- Hip Hop and Racial Desire in Contemporary Japan Author(by Nina Cornyetz

Palestinian:

Slingshot Hip Hop

Desi/South Asian (2 articles)

Desi Music Vibes- The Performance of Indian Youth Culture in Chicago Author(s)- Gregory Diethrich

http://www.littleindia.com/news/137/ARTICLE/1340/2006-10-12.html

Don’t have the list with me so please post as a comment if you can’t find your group members.

Flygirls-Notes of a Hip Hop Feminist

Comment under assignments: Identify a quote or fact from each reading that surprises you, bothers you, or strikes you as particularly interesting. Write three sentences about why it is interesting, strange or puzzling or bothersome to you. Do this for BOTH readings. As best you can, connect the readings with your own media viewing/listening experiences.

No comment due–but be prepared to do some in-class writing that you will turn in:

How does the film address/respond to/critique stereotypes of Native Americans.

See (on reserve in libary) Pocohontas or Dances With Wolves

Comment Due today: Be ready to complete an in class writing/discussion assignments about a Native American character from the film you chose. How are they represented in terms of speech, costume, etc. ? Be ready to discuss how the categories from the articles for Tuesday are working in these represenations. Cite the two articles from 3/16.

Readings: http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/revichurchill_35_p.htm

Introduction to The White Man’s Indian The White Man’s Indian

Comment 3-4 sentence– How is the Social Construction of Native Americans in Media distinct from the social constructions of whiteness and blackness and Latinidad we’ve been investigating?