Double Entendre Got Bodied: Strategic Ambivalence and Latinx Young Men Rappin’ under the White Gaze

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C. Wong
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I explore how two Latinx young men made use of rapping within a creative and healing afterschool hip hop space at a California Bay Area High School. I argue that they performed a calculated, strategic ambivalence. That is, just as they composed raps that made use of wordplay with double or more meanings, they constructed personhoods that quite literally embodied double or more meanings. They became the embodiment of double entendre, strategically performing, rapping and narrativizing personas that allowed them to synchronously survive the classroom and the 'hood, subverting the "White gaze" and the gaze of the streets.
双重恩怨缠身:战略模糊与拉丁裔年轻人在白眼下说唱
我探索了两个拉丁裔年轻人是如何在加州湾区高中的一个富有创意和治愈力的课后嘻哈空间里利用说唱的。我认为,他们表现出了一种精心策划的战略矛盾心理。也就是说,正如他们创作的说唱利用了具有双重或更多含义的文字游戏一样,他们构建的人格也完全体现了双重或更多意义。他们成为了双关语的化身,战略性地表演、说唱和叙事人物角色,使他们能够在课堂和引擎盖中同步生存,颠覆了“白人凝视”和街头凝视。
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期刊介绍: Journal of World Popular Music is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research and scholarship on recent issues and debates surrounding international popular musics, also known as World Music, Global Pop, World Beat or, more recently, World Music 2.0. The journal provides a forum to explore the manifestations and impacts of post-globalizing trends, processes, and dynamics surrounding these musics today. It adopts an open-minded perspective, including in its scope any local popularized musics of the world, commercially available music of non-Western origin, musics of ethnic minorities, and contemporary fusions or collaborations with local ‘traditional’ or ‘roots’ musics with Western pop and rock musics. Placing specific emphasis on contemporary, interdisciplinary, and international perspectives, the journal’s special features include empirical research and scholarship into the global creative and music industries, the participants of World Music, the musics themselves and their representations in all media forms today, among other relevant themes and issues; alongside explorations of recent ideas and perspectives from popular music, ethnomusicology, anthropology, musicology, communication, media and cultural studies, sociology, geography, art and museum studies, and other fields with a scholarly focus on World Music. The journal also features special, guest-edited issues that bring together contributions under a unifying theme or geographical area.
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