"You Sell Your Soul Like You Sell a Piece of ass": Rhythms of Black Female Sexuality and Subjectivity in MeShell Ndegeocello's cookie: the anthropological mlxtape
2016; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 26; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1946-1615
Autores Tópico(s)Latin American and Latino Studies
ResumoI want y'all to repeat after me! There's no such thing as alternative hip hop. There's no such thing as alternative hip-hop! So proclaimed MeShell Ndegeocello at a concert to promote the release of her debut album, Plantation Lullabies (1993), the first album on Madonna's Maverick label, which featured the chart-topping hits I'm Diggin' You (Like an Old Soul Record) and If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night). In his review of the concert for Village Voice, Greg T?te (1994) interprets Ndegeocello's claim as an unambiguous manifestation of her identification with the core of hip-hop, the musical style that by the early 1990s, demon strated that its mass appeal was not the fleeting phenomenon critics dismissed it as throughout the 1980s but a sign of hip-hop's undeniable, if controversial, cultural merit. Today, among critical and popular audiences alike, hip-hop encompasses both the specific musical arrangements and delivery that emerged from the Bronx in the late 1970s and the cultural prac tices in dance, art, and fashion that as a result of American capitalism, are strongly identified with youth culture in the United States and abroad NGHANA LEWIS holds a joint assistant professorship in English and African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University. Her research, which addresses nineteenth- and twen tieth-century American literature and law and African-American expressive culture, broadly conceived, has been published in Louisiana History, Black Music Research Journal, the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, African American Review, Arizona Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, and Southern Quarterly. Her first book, Entitled to the Pedestal: Race, Place, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920-1945, will be released in April 2007 by the
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