cureforbedbugs:

marathonpacks:

cureforbedbugs:

Reading through some semi-recent academic journals today, and I stumbled upon a study that claims that exposure to short-term “highly sexual imagery” in hip-hop videos (and only hip-hop videos) is correlated with male viewers’ “more traditional” values about gender norms and “more tolerance” of rape.

There are countless reasons why this is a flawed study (I’m not going to bother linking to it, since I don’t think it’s worth actually talking about as a study). But the biggest reason, I think, is that one of three or four of the “highly sexual” videos selected was MY HUMPS BY THE BLACK EYED PEAS.

Some graduate student watched this video, and thought, “yes, THIS is a highly sexualized music video. There is no other possible interpretation.”

You should link to it! Why censor a mention of something when airing it out would do much better to keep conversation going, if not improving?

And of course you’re right that a lot of academics have zero idea how to talk about hip-hop. It’s really embarrassing, actually. But there are many others doing great work!

It’s this one.

Yeah, the approach taken here explains so much. Just know (you likely do) that it doesn’t represent the entirety of “academia” on this topic, not really even close. I haven’t read the article, but I can state outright that I’m not interested in the question (different than saying it’s bad work). I definitely prefer (and can recommend) approaches that take the contested, weird, non-quantifiable, messy aspects of culture much more into account. This isn’t an anti-quantitative screed (more a pro-cultural studies/anthropology one), just that a cultural or social approach to music (not one of “effects”) is what you seem to be more interested in.