Performing Feminism, Autobiography, and Testimony. Feminist Rap in Latin America.
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-221850
- This article focuses on selected Latin American female rap artists (Anita Tijoux, Rebeca Lane, and the duo Krudas Cubensi), and the way they perform feminism, autobiography and testimony through their lyrics and performances. The analysis concentrates on the synergies between the texts themselves, the official music videos shared on YouTube and the background music. It aims to demonstrate that only such a synergistic approach to rap allows a profound understanding of its particularities and its contributions to feminist discourses and spacesThis article focuses on selected Latin American female rap artists (Anita Tijoux, Rebeca Lane, and the duo Krudas Cubensi), and the way they perform feminism, autobiography and testimony through their lyrics and performances. The analysis concentrates on the synergies between the texts themselves, the official music videos shared on YouTube and the background music. It aims to demonstrate that only such a synergistic approach to rap allows a profound understanding of its particularities and its contributions to feminist discourses and spaces for feminist testimony in the current rise of both right-wing politics and feminist movements on the continent.…
Author: | Ana Nenadovic |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-221850 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Neuphilologisches Institut - Moderne Fremdsprachen |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (German): | promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik |
ISSN: | 2364-6705 |
Year of Completion: | 2019 |
Volume: | 5 |
Pagenumber: | 95-114 |
Source: | promtus 5 (2019), S. 95-114 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 86 Spanische, portugiesische Literaturen / 860 Spanische, portugiesische Literaturen |
Tag: | Latin America; autobiography; feminist rap; performance; performativity |
Release Date: | 2021/01/22 |
Collections: | Zeitschriften (Journals) / promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik / Band 5 / Artikel / articles |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |