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Kyra D. Gaunt

In: Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Global Diversities

Chapter 13: African American Women Between Hopscotch and Hip-Hop: “Must Be the Music (That's Turnin' Me On)”

Edited by: Angharad N. Valdivia

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483345383.n13

Subject: Feminist Theory, Multiculturalism, Mass Communication Theory

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Gaunt, K. (1995). African american women between hopscotch and hip-hop: “must be the music (that's turnin' me on)”. In A. N. Valdivia (Ed.), Feminism, multiculturalism, and the media: Global diversities (pp. 277-308). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781483345383.n13

Gaunt, Kyra D. "African American Women Between Hopscotch and Hip-Hop: “Must Be the Music (That's Turnin' Me On)”." In Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Global Diversities, edited by Angharad N. Valdivia, 277-308. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 1995. doi: 10.4135/9781483345383.n13.

Gaunt, K 1995, 'African american women between hopscotch and hip-hop: “must be the music (that's turnin' me on)”', in Valdivia, AN (ed.), Feminism, multiculturalism, and the media: global diversities, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 277-308, viewed 14 October 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781483345383.n13.

Gaunt, Kyra D. "African American Women Between Hopscotch and Hip-Hop: “Must Be the Music (That's Turnin' Me On)”." Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Global Diversities. Ed. Angharad N. Valdivia. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 1995. 277-308. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 14 Oct. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781483345383.n13.

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African American Women Between Hopscotch and Hip-Hop: “Must Be the Music (That's Turnin' Me On)”
African American women between hopscotch and hip-hop: “Must be the music (That's Turnin' Me On)”
Kyra D.Gaunt

How do young, intelligent, black women—single mothers, married, working, or seeking degrees of “higher learning”—how do they negotiate participation in a music that has been labeled “male” and appears to be a contemporary example of the subordination of women in our culture? Contrary to popular belief, there are African American women who are fans of rap music. Their voices have been nearly silenced in the wave of criticisms of misogny against rap. This silence will persist as long as we accept the strongly held notion that rap/hip-hop music1 is exclusively male created and targeted as ...

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