期刊全称 | Black Masculinity and Hip-Hop Music | 期刊简称 | Black Gay Men Who Ra | 影响因子2023 | Xinling Li | 视频video | | 发行地址 | 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 | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | . .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... | Pindex | Book 2019 |
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