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[ecrea] Teaching Media CFP: Sexuality in Hip Hop Culture

Mon Jan 28 17:02:11 GMT 2013




“Sexuality in Hip Hop Culture” Teaching Media 1(3): 2013

Teaching Media is dedicated to promoting a collaborative exchange and dialogue between media studies scholars about contemporary approaches to teaching and critically engaging with multi-modal media.

Call for Proposals:

For most media-centered courses, representations of race, gender, and sexuality are key sites of investigation. One way to engage students in these discussions is to draw upon their own investment in hip hop culture. This particular moment is ripe with possibilities for exploring the complex representations of raced and gendered sexualities in hip hop. More than ever, hip hop artists are transgressing the boundaries of heteronormative sexuality. From Frank Ocean’s coming out narrative and Nikki Minaj’s lyrical claims to bisexuality to New Orleans Sissy Bounce and New York Vogue, mainstream and counterculture artists alike are queering hip hop sexuality. At the same time, hypersexuality and the objectification of women remain salient in hip hop culture, reinforcing heteronormative gender roles. How might we encourage students to think about the assumptions and contradictions in hip hop culture? In this issue, we seek proposals that investigate the myriad intersection of sexuality, gender, and hip hop.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

-How might we begin discussions about non-normative forms of sexuality in hip hop?
-What messages about sexuality are embedded or implied in hip hop?
-How are LGBTQ artists received in hip hop? How are they represented?
-What is the relationship between hip hop and queer culture? How do artists “queer” hip hop identity? -How and when might mainstream artists “queer” or subvert dominant culture and aesthetics? - What spaces are opened up when we read hip hop representations through the lenses of parody, satire and performance?
-How might we balance critique and appreciation when discussing hip hop?
-How and where do people talk about sexuality and hip hop? What spaces and conversations are most productive?

Teaching Media seeks 250-word summaries of teaching materials and models from a variety of pedagogical perspectives. The summary should include your general framework, a list of teaching materials and/or assignments in the unit, and a short explanation of why your approach is innovative. Please email all submissions, either as a word or PDF document, to* (teachingmedia.contact /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(teachingmedia.contact /at/ gmail.com)>*. The Teaching Media editorial board will choose three summaries and ask the submitters to expand upon their abstract as part of a curated space on our site. Those not chosen are encouraged to submit their materials to our common space.


SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 18, 2013


As we hope for continuing discussions and exchange as well as contributions to Teaching Media we encourage you to visit our website at http://www.teachingmedia.org/

Best,

Teaching Media editorial board

Jacquelyn Arcy
Mia Fischer
Melody Hoffmann
Kate Ranachan

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