Reading for the Week:
Smalls, Shante, “The Rain Comes Down” http://abs.sagepub.com/content/55/1/86.abstract
Snorton, C. Riley, “Trapped in the Epistemological Closet” http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10999940902910115
Miller-Young, Mireille, “Hip-Hop Honeys and Da Hustlaz” http://www.jstor.org/stable/40338920
And have a look at this archive from the recent Queerness of Hip Hop conference: http://qohh.tumblr.com/
Lil Miss – Time After Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV_YUxBk3vE&feature=share&list=PLZQvaX81GsYaAd7Xpv8FHELze38V9EL76
1947- Gonna Leave Here Walkin’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yksb0jsMO4Y
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Jeff Mills – The Bells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwpedKWwS3w
Prince Rock Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
Seal Crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fc67yQsPqQ
Janelle Monae Cold War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmORiHNtN4
cover girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34XQHAGnpR8
Peters & Seier “Home Dance” examples:
Missing from the archive/database:
JemessanEm Abba-dancing queen
Lily Kerrigan Every 1’s a winner
“teen remediation of Kiss” undocumented (because of its queerness?)
Wahlberg, YouTube Commemoration examples:
Miller examples:
In lieu of the conversation we had last class, and in reading the Youtube Reader essays, I keep finding myself drawn to this music video (which probably many of you are familiar with).
I wonder how we might consider this video alongside the concept of mimesis? Also, what does it say about the (re)production of bodies, film, music? Will.i.am wears a chain of a camera around his neck, both Britney and Will.i.am are reproduced and mirrored throughout the video while walking along what can be read as a kind of assembly line, and the merging of old and new technologies seem to be part of the message of this video. (Check 1:07, 3:33, 3:35-3:37, etc.) Thought it might be interesting for us to think about this video in discussion tomorrow alongside last weeks conversation about the history of the MP3!
Happy reading/listening/watching,
Meghan
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