Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Another issue that this music can address deals with issues of sexuality. When a female rapper says that she loves sex, she's chastised. When it's our music, it won't go like that. We need "be happy with your body" lyrics, "love yourself wholly and truly and you'll never be alone waiting for Tyrone to call you" lyrics. Oh and we must address this cult of "chickenhead envy," a phrase coined by the "hip hop feminist" Joan Morgan, the bandit that dogs sisters who work hard and feel that they deserve a salaried member of the male...
...Where do women fit in a world where the music of social unrest is the grounds for American-style success stories? The only space that I see for women is one that makes room for subversion, because if women are going to argue for room at all, it needs to be new room. Let me restate: Honey, we gotta make a change. In fact, if we are to look at hip hop from a progressive-evolutionist stand point, we'd have to say that the boys can never go back to the way they were, go back to speaking because...
...even engage men in debate about whether or not the role of the mother is important, but to get out there and speak about it. Let the suckers realize all that women have done for their sorry behinds. The emotion behind this will take the music beyond the people we are addressing. In fact, the hard life issue that's so necessary to the culture of spectacle and voyeurism that supports hip hop lives within this debate. If people believe that the struggle of the woman is equal or better than the struggle of the man, female hip hop will...
...first movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D, Opus 35. The grand affair, whose ambitious program featured famed excerpts from the likes of Strauss, Beethoven and Gershwin, kicked off a new BSO initiative called "Symphony in the City" the aim of which is to offer free music to the city neighborhoods of Boston...
...concert was supposedly geared towards children, with Roberta Flack providing hip commentary--somehow she managed to parallel Brahms to Puff Daddy and Orff to Michael Jackson--working the audience and attempting to tone down the somber aura of classical music. In a sense, this effort to reach out to people who would otherwise normally not be exposed to classical music was commendable. Though it was sometimes hard to hear over the quiet buzz of audience chatter, especially with the acoustical downfalls of the athletic building, the casual concert setting could not detract from the magic of hearing a live professional...