MUS 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Flavor Flav, Hype Man, Demography Of The United States
7 Mar 2016
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Lecture 5: new school hip hop cont. (1980s) Although there are significantly fewer female than male rappers, they have a prominent role in rap and a substantial following (rose) 6 is considered to be one of the first important studies of gender relations in hip hop. Female artists, dynamics between male and female artists. Lady d , salt n peppa, queen latifah, monie love, mc lyte, the sequence, yo yo girl, ms. melodie, jj fad. Many factors involved in women having more challenges being hip hop artists o. Financial issues: record labels didn"t tend to support female rappers as much; less access to money to buy equipment o. They were not salaried, female music wasn"t as heavily promoted: weren"t funded for tours, not necessarily for music videos either o, misogyny o. Logistical issues in the 70s: worried about having their equipment stolen (in poor neighbourhoods women were a bigger target to have equipment stolen)
