Overview
- Reconsiders the relationship between music, race, homosexuality and masculinity
- Encompasses sociological theories, studies of race, gender, and sexuality, and popular culture studies.
- Offers an interdisciplinary critique of queer theory and other dominate gender theories
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This book offers an interdisciplinary study of hip-hop music written and performed by rappers who happen to be out black gay men. It examines the storytelling mechanisms of gay themed lyrics, and how these form protests and become enabling tools for (black) gay men to discuss issues such as living on the down-low and HIV/AIDS. It considers how the biased promotion of feminised gay male artists/characters in mainstream entertainment industry has rendered masculinity an exclusively male heterosexual property, providing a representational framework for men to identify with a form of “homosexual masculinity” – one that is constructed without having to either victimise anything feminine or necessarily convert to femininity. The book makes a strong case that it is possible for individuals (like gay rappers) to perform masculinity against masculinity, and open up a new way of striving for gender equality.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
XinLing Li is Associate Professor at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Black Masculinity and Hip-Hop Music
Book Subtitle: Black Gay Men Who Rap
Authors: Xinling Li
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3513-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3512-9Published: 17 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3513-6Published: 06 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 179
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Queer Theory, Music, Gender and Sexuality, Culture and Gender