We All Came from a Woman: Rap Music and Misogyny

Hoston, William T.

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“…In the realm of social science and empirical research, much of the scholarship can be classified into two broad categories: content analysis of the lyrics; and attitudinal effect on the listeners. While the dominant conclusion is that rap lyrics have a misogyny problem (Adams and Fuller, 2006; Armstrong, 2001; Barongan and Hall, 1995; Hoston, 2014; Ling and Dipolog-Ubanan, 2017; West, 2009), the literature is contested. Some authors found that misogynistic messages in rap songs are not as frequent as people generally believe (Weitzer and Kubrin, 2009), or that other genres are just as bad, if more subtle in their sexism (Frisby and Behm-Morawitz, 2019).…”

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A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap

Khan

2021

Theoretical Criminology

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This article draws on governance theory, critical theory and cultural criminology to interrogate how legal, social scientific and feminist discourses converge to construct rap music as a pressing social problem. While each discourse has its own preoccupations, ideologies and internal contestation, the overarching message is that rap music is a potential source of danger that conveys anti-social attitudes. Suspicion is sometimes also cast on musicians themselves. While I compare three overlapping fields, the ultimate purpose is to problematize the supposedly progressive approach to interpreting and mobilizing against songs deemed harmful. Significantly, I argue that much of the social science scholarship and feminist activism that addresses hip hop music perpetuates anti-Black stereotypes and dovetails with repressive state apparatuses. Among other things, social science and feminist criticism of rap hermeneutically support the use of rap lyrics as evidence of criminality—a distinctly non-progressive, racialized legal practice.

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A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap

Khan

2021

Theoretical Criminology

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We All Came from a Woman: Rap Music and Misogyny

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A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap

A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap

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