LEADER 03039nam 22005655 450 001 9910350281903321 005 20181206164919.0 010 $a981-13-3513-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-13-3513-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000007204716 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5611933 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-13-3513-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007204716 100 $a20181206d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlack Masculinity and Hip-Hop Music$b[electronic resource] $eBlack Gay Men Who Rap /$fby Xinling Li 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (184 pages) 311 $a981-13-3512-5 327 $aIntroduction -- Black Masculinity, Homosexuality and Hip-Hop Music -- The Commoditisation of Hip-Hop Music and Queerness -- Revelations from Black Gay Men Who Rap -- Facing Challenges -- Homosexual Masculinity -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis book offers an interdisciplinary study of hip-hop music written and performed by rappers who happen to be out black gay men. It examines the storytelling mechanisms of gay themed lyrics, and how these form protests and become enabling tools for (black) gay men to discuss issues such as living on the down-low and HIV/AIDS. It considers how the biased promotion of feminised gay male artists/characters in mainstream entertainment industry has rendered masculinity an exclusively male heterosexual property, providing a representational framework for men to identify with a form of ?homosexual masculinity? ? one that is constructed without having to either victimise anything feminine or necessarily convert to femininity. The book makes a strong case that it is possible for individuals (like gay rappers) to perform masculinity against masculinity, and open up a new way of striving for gender equality. 606 $aQueer theory 606 $aMusic 606 $aGender identity 606 $aCulture 606 $aGender 606 $aQueer Theory$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/X35020 606 $aMusic$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/417000 606 $aGender and Sexuality$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/X35010 606 $aCulture and Gender$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/411210 615 0$aQueer theory. 615 0$aMusic. 615 0$aGender identity. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aGender. 615 14$aQueer Theory. 615 24$aMusic. 615 24$aGender and Sexuality. 615 24$aCulture and Gender. 676 $a155.332 700 $aLi$b Xinling$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01064000 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910350281903321 996 $aBlack Masculinity and Hip-Hop Music$92535802 997 $aUNINA