DOC 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: India Arie, Migraine, Queen Latifah
Document Summary
Popularity of hip hop culture led to corporate interest in profits. The struggle of artists, groups using hip hop as a platform to take political positions against dominant ideologies. Power of record companies and media corporations to promote/reject images that won"t sell. Emergent ideologies appear when social and economic realities produce new social formations or cultural forms with their own sub culture. New but also pushes against dominant ideology and forms of injustice. Struggling economy correlates with deterioration of health. Have their origins the past but are still active in the current cultural process. Can be deployed to support dominant power relations or deployed for counter hegemonic purposes. Counter-hegemonic movements will sometimes re-present or reproduce residual ideologies. In order to critique or unsettle hegemonic struggles. The video showcases images of influential women. White suburban males most likely would not have known who these people were. Male supremacy does not put ladies first.
