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Shuōchàng: Hip-Hop in China

marisa — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:16:21 +0000

Jimmy Wang has a produced a nice little video over at The New York Times. It’s on the underground hip-hop movement in China. According to wikipedia, “The Chinese term for rap is shuōchàng (Simplified Chinese: 说唱; literally “narrative,” actually the name of a traditional genre of narrative singing.”

I can’t post the video on $3.60, but click here to watch.

NPR also had a nice story on Chinese rap group Red Star (pictured above), and The Lab, a nonprofit studio dedicated to developing hip-hop in China.

Good: Gettin’ down with Mr. Rogers

marisa — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:44:16 +0000

Doin’ the yes we can before we knew we could!

“all lesbians are sneaky”

marisa — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:31:23 +0000

Chloé A. Hilliard has an interesting article over at the Village Voice, subheaded “Young lesbians in Brooklyn find that a thug’s life gets them more women.”From one woman’s hypermasculine assertion that “all lesbians are sneaky,” to Don Vito’s organization of her peers into a “house,” there are many places where this article intersects with our interests in performance and identity, both viz. gender and also race. We haven’t quite gotten to girlpower and hip-hop, nor to performativity in Paris Is Burning in Racial Passing, but I couldn’t resist posting this now!

At the article site, you’ll also find an audio interview with the article’s author, and a slideshow.