Twerk sumn!: theorizing Black girl epistemology in the body

Halliday, Aria S.

doi:10.1080/09502386.2020.1714688

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“…The music video can be found on YouTube on BLK’s, the largest dating app for Black singles, channel. The initial 7 seconds feature the original song’s infamous “beat drop,” the moment where the silence is broken and the twerking anthem comes in; in fact, the first 7 seconds of the video still features twerking, a dancing act that empowers Black women and provides agency over their body ( Halliday, 2020 ). At around 10 seconds listeners hear the first clear departure from the original as Juvenile raps, “But before you find a date yeah, you gotta wait yeah, Gotta go vaccinate yeah, get it straight yeah.” In this stanza, Juvenile frames the vaccination as critical to dating, using a potential romantic connection as the main motivation for seeking a vaccine.…”

Section: Overview and Analysis Of The Artifactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Music Videos as Health Promotion: Juvenile’s “Vax That Thang Up” and the Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Black Community

Hawkins

Simon-Roberts

2023

American Behavioral Scientist

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COVID-19 data reveals that the disease has disproportionately affected the Black community, yet the lowest vaccination rates can be found among this demographic. A myriad of factors can explain this health disparity, but structural barriers such as availability and vaccine apprehension amongst the Black community emerge as two primary reasons. Despite targeted outreach, traditional health campaigns directed at the Black community did not yield results; many argue this was due to the community’s history of medical exploitation and rightful distrust of the medical sector. Instead, the Black community turned to popular culture as a primary means of health information. In turn, Juvenile’s classic song “Back That Thang Up” was repurposed into a vaccine anthem—“Vax That Thang Up.” The PSA, which infuses hip-hop, health promotion, and the power of music videos, sparked controversy and has over 3 million views on YouTube. These considerations serve as the basis of this study, which will interrogate the intersection of health communication and pop culture, in relation to the music video—“Vax That Thang Up.” The researchers will employ the culture-centered approach to unpack how the music video disrupted traditional aspects of health communication campaigns.

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Music Videos as Health Promotion: Juvenile’s “Vax That Thang Up” and the Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Black Community

Hawkins

Simon-Roberts

2023

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Curated by Atlanta's HBCUs, Black women produced, transformed and defined cultural interactions within this street party (Thompson 2007). The participants of Freaknik in Atlanta were Black collegiate youth who were key components of booty shaking and twerking performances that occurred in the streets of Atlanta by Black women (Halliday 2020;Thompson 2007). The annual event specifically highlighted how Black women could shape southern culture through dance and street performance.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ultimately, the inclusion of sexual and more physically erotic dances tied to sexual fantasies includes the perspectives of Black women who occupy new Black sexual politics that appear in hip-hop dance culture. The interrogation and praxis of including Black sex workers in southern hip-hop culture caters to the Black feminist and hip-hop feminist futures of incorporating nuanced sexual politics surrounding the agency of Black women's bodies, which have ties to African diasporic erotic dance expressions found in Caribbean and African cultures (Halliday 2020;Morgan 2015;Sharpley-Whiting 2008). Therefore, it is important to emphasize that Black expressive dance cultures are Afrodiasporic, if one explores the presence and movement of the booty/butt in African and Caribbean dance cultures that are unique to the South (Defrantz 2016(Defrantz , 2018Gottschild 2005;Halliday 2020).…”

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“…Two of the pillars of hip-hop are dance and knowledge of the self, which I argue are related themes that help Black girls navigate pleasure and self-expression. Similarly, many Black girlhood and hip-hop feminist scholars agree that Black girls' kinetic orality caters to their ability to build community and self-expression, and unveil creative and intellectual potential through Black dances like twerking and majorette dancing Gaunt 2006;Halliday 2020;Lindsey 2013;Love 2012Love , 2017. Black women and girls build knowledge through embodied experiences in which their connection to hip-hop dance provides a nuanced and inclusive look into the ways in which their socio-cultural and political ties to hip-hop culture serve as a sight for knowledge making, creativity, and self-expression.…”

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Dirty South Feminism: The Girlies Got Somethin’ to Say Too! Southern Hip-Hop Women, Fighting Respectability, Talking Mess, and Twerking Up the Dirty South

Johnson

2021

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Within southern hip-hop, minimal credit has been given to the Black women who have curated sonic and performance narratives within the southern region. Many southern hip-hop scholars and journalists have centralized the accomplishments and masculinities of southern male rap performances. Here, dirty south feminism works to explore how agency, location, and Black women’s rap (lyrics and rhyme) and dance (twerking) performances in southern hip-hop are established under a contemporary hip-hop womanist framework. I critique the history of southern hip-hop culture by decentralizing male-dominated and hyper-masculine southern hip-hop identities. Second, I extend hip-hop feminist/womanist scholarship that includes tangible reflections of Black womanhood that emerge out of the South to see how these narratives reshape and re-inform representations of Black women and girls within southern hip-hop culture. I use dirty south feminism to include geographical understandings of southern Black women who have grown up in the South and been sexually shamed, objectified and pushed to the margins in southern hip-hop history. I seek to explore the following questions: How does the performance of Black women’s presence in hip-hop dance localize the South to help expand narratives within dirty south hip-hop? How can the “dirty south” as a geographical place within hip-hop be a guide to disrupt a conservative hip-hop South through a hip-hop womanist lens?

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“…By interpreting twerk as an African diasporic dance, we detach it from the erotic status and deem it as a political and cultural action (Pérez, 2016). Twerk performances in pop divas’ music videos have been analysed by Halliday (2020) as an expression of self-esteem and celebration of Black women, while highlighting their ancestry and sexuality – in a way, respecting the origins of twerk dance moves (Gaunt, 2015).…”

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‘This gave me a Mastodong’: A decolonial analysis of the Black twerking dancers in Mastodon The Motherload music video

Silva

Medeiros

2021

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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The article presents a decolonial and intersectional approach to production and reception of The Motherload music video (2014) in the context of heavy metal culture and how female Black bodies are displayed in media culture. We discuss the feminist dichotomic approach on the objectification of female bodies and the defence of Black female empowerment in the performances recorded. Our debate focuses on racial and sexual hierarchies in the metal music scene and in The Motherload music video, using the female Black body as a means of gaining visibility and adherence to this scene where women are often sexually objectified in its social dynamics.

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Twerk sumn!: theorizing Black girl epistemology in the body

Cited by 29 publications

References 31 publications

Music Videos as Health Promotion: Juvenile’s “Vax That Thang Up” and the Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Black Community

Music Videos as Health Promotion: Juvenile’s “Vax That Thang Up” and the Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Black Community

Dirty South Feminism: The Girlies Got Somethin’ to Say Too! Southern Hip-Hop Women, Fighting Respectability, Talking Mess, and Twerking Up the Dirty South

‘This gave me a Mastodong’: A decolonial analysis of the Black twerking dancers in Mastodon The Motherload music video

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