"The Music Industry Funds Private Prisons": Analyzing Hip-Hop Urban Legend

IF 0.2 3区艺术学 0 MUSIC

AMERICAN MUSIC Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.5406/19452349.40.4.15

Alisha Lola Jones

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Black love and hiphop brought Calvin Taylor Skinner and me together in 2018 as we nurtured a commuter relationship between Knoxville and Bloomington, Indiana. During our fiveto sixhour drives, I talked about my research on musical masculinity, while my theologianactivist guy shared provocative YouTube videos and podcasts facilitated by hiphop sages to stir conversation.1 The sages selfidentify variously as PanAfrican, American descendants of slaves (ADOS) or Foundational Black Americans (FBA), among other Blackcentered/Africancentered terms. The ADOS/FBA experts probed a constellation of obscure discourses: extraterrestrial encounters, Dr. Sebi, erased ancient African histories, reparations, Black love, and “conscious” hiphop.2 Discussing these topics with Calvin afforded me familiarity with Black men’s curation of complex creativeintellectual space irrespective of dominant culture’s understanding of their discourses. Central to this enigmatic genre of orality is speculation, inspecting structural barriers in an idiom their people recognize. From Tidal.com to BlackMagikUniversity.com to 4BiddenKnowledge.com, controlling one’s virtual presence is an essential facet of agency in the hiphop tradition. Our conversations inspired me to return to a juxtaposition I offered my students of esotericism performed in Bone ThugsNHarmony’s

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“音乐产业资助私人监狱”：嘻哈都市传奇解析

2018年，我和卡尔文·泰勒·斯金纳(Calvin Taylor Skinner)在诺克斯维尔(Knoxville)和印第安纳州布卢明顿(Bloomington)之间建立了通勤关系，黑人爱情和嘻哈音乐让我们走到了一起。在我们五六个小时的车程中，我谈到了我对音乐男性气质的研究，而我的神学家激进主义者则分享了由嘻哈圣贤提供的煽动性YouTube视频和播客，以引发对话这些圣人自称为泛非人、美国奴隶后裔(ADOS)或基础美国黑人(FBA)，以及其他以黑人为中心/以非洲为中心的术语。ADOS/FBA的专家们探讨了一系列晦涩的话语:外星人遭遇、塞比博士、被抹去的古代非洲历史、赔偿、黑人之爱和“有意识的”嘻哈与加尔文讨论这些话题让我熟悉了黑人对复杂的创造性知识空间的管理，而不管主流文化对他们话语的理解。这种神秘的口语流派的核心是猜测，用他们的人民认识的习语检查结构障碍。从Tidal.com到BlackMagikUniversity.com到4BiddenKnowledge.com，控制一个人的虚拟存在是嘻哈传统中代理的一个重要方面。我们的谈话启发了我回到我给我的学生在骨暴徒和谐表演的神秘主义的并和

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AMERICAN MUSIC MUSIC-

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0.30

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期刊介绍： Now in its 28th year, American Music publishes articles on American composers, performers, publishers, institutions, events, and the music industry, as well as book and recording reviews, bibliographies, and discographies.