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  So U Think U Can Dance?

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  Sharon Shahaf Georgia State University

  February 22, 2007

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  cultivated Afros. The routine begins in “mute” representing the loss of voice experienced by the duo on the ...
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  “The Persistence of “Wild Style”: Hip-Hop and Music Video Culture at the Intersection of Performance and Provocation

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  Michele Prettyman Mercer University

  April 30, 2020

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  times wielded bluntly, while at others nuanced and precise. Beginning in the twentieth century, ...
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  (Asian American?) Hip Hop: Cool Calm Pete’s “Black Friday”

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  Jane Park University of Oklahoma

  April 29, 2008

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  I thought I'd post it here to perhaps begin complicating what we mean by "Asian American" ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)” Ying Yang Twins whiteness transgression taste race music masculinity hip hop guilty pleasures cultural capital affect Curator's Note Owning up to a guilty pleasure is a perfor ...
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  Latino Hip Hop: The Complexity of Challenging the Status Quo

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  Mari Castaneda University of Massachusetts at Amherst

  November 12, 2007

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  Latino Hip Hop: The Complexity of Challenging the Status Quo transnationalism sexism race patriarchy music video Latinos Kinto Sol immigration hip hop demographics consumer citizenship Curator's Note Latina/o media and popular culture is in a moment ...
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  Kung Fu and Cowboys: Hip Hop Cinema in the 1970s?

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  Cutler Edwards UC San Diego

  September 05, 2012

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  Kung Fu and Cowboys: Hip Hop Cinema in the 1970s? youth culture transnational radicalism race popular culture multiracial kung fu hip hop cowboy colonialism breaking breakdance b-boy 1970s Curator's Note We should consider popular 1970s films as pref ...