RT Article
T1 Post-Pomo Hip-Hop Homos: Hip-Hop Art, Gay Rappers, and Social Change
JF Social justice
VO 34
IS 1
SP 117
OP 140
A1 Wilson, D. Mark
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/174715735X
AB Part of a special issue on the relationship between art, identity, and social justice. A study was conducted to examine the contributions and political activism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer hip-hop artists. Data were obtained from interviews and field work with the gay hip-hop crew Deep Dick Collective (D/DC). Findings revealed that D/DC's call for social action and its willingness to engage with critique and contradiction challenge other progressive movements to reflect critically on the social identities and social realities of people they would rather disregard. Findings also revealed that D/DC's art presents to hip-hop and other progressive movements of change a willingness to admit that these movements have limitations regarding issues of identity, and that these limitations require constant self-critique and self-examination. Findings are discussed in detail.
K1 Social Change
K1 Popular culture -- United States
K1 African American musicians
K1 Hip-hop culture
K1 Sexual minorities
K1 LGBTQ+ musicians
K1 Gay men & musicals
K1 Gay men in literature
K1 Social conditions of LGBTQ people
K1 Gay men
K1 Rap musicians
K1 Gay musicians
K1 Music -- Social aspects