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started drafting this essay, Iggy Azalea’s appropriation of hip hop—from her “blackcent” to her ignorance of its history—led to demands for greater ac- countability to the culture and the broader community.
This research builds on existing scholarship on racial ideology by analyzing how white youths practice color-blind ideol-ogy in a local hip-hop scene, justifying their participation and unwittingly wielding their racial power to culturally appropriate hip-hop.
cultural appropriation, Orejuela likewise elevates an understanding of the communi-ties from which rap was born over any single individual’s pleasant experiences of lis-tening, although those are certainly still affirmed through the aforementioned listening guides. As he writes in the book’s initial chapter, ‘[T]he more industry
Oct 24, 2024 · Benny Goodman ‘became the “King of Swing” leading a mostly white band’. 8 White ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ artists systematically covered and outsold Black ‘rhythm & blues’ songs. 9 Of course, at the turn of the millennium, hip hop gained its own white megastar, and one of the best-selling rap artists still to this day, Eminem. 10 Black scholars interpreting this pattern have observed ...
Hip-hop’s imperatives of authenticity are tied to its representations of African-American identity, and white rap artists negotiate their place within hip-hop culture by responding to this African-American model of the authentic.
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Mar 1, 2008 · Hip-hop music and culture, once considered an American phenomenon, exists throughout the world today. In each cultural area, hip-hop artists filter American and other foreign hip-hop styles through their own local musical, social, and linguistic practices, creating unique musical forms.
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Abstract. This article examines how white youths culturally appropriate hip-hop by adhering to the demands of color-blind ideology. Using ethnographic methods and interviews of members in a local hip-hop scene, I argue that colorblind ideology provides whites with the discursive resources to justify their presence in the scene, and more ...
