Women rapping revolution [electronic resource] : hip hop and community building in Detroit / Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay ; forewords by Piper Carter and Mahogany Jones.

"Detroit is a city that has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women in Detroit's hip hop underground have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to po...

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Main Authors: Farrugia, Rebekah (Author)
Hay, Kellie D., 1965- (Author)
Other Authors: Carter, Piper (writer of foreword.)
Jones, Mahogany (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Series:California series in hip hop studies ; 1.
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Variant Title:
Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : intersections of Detroit, women, and hip hop
  • Detroit hip hop and the rise of the Foundation
  • Hip hop sounds and sensibilities in post-bankruptcy Detroit
  • Negotiating genderqueer identity formation
  • Vulnerable mavericks wreck rap's conventions
  • "Legendary," environmental justice, and collaborative cultural production
  • Hip hop activism in action
  • Conclusion : women, hip hop, and cultural organizing.