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 interd. .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 mal
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