Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapper as a Black, masculine, heterosexual, cisgender ...man who enacts a narrative of struggle and success. In Queer Voices in Hip Hop , Lauron J. Kehrer turns our attention to openly queer and trans rappers and positions them within a longer Black queer musical lineage. Combining musical, textual, and visual analysis with reception history, this book reclaims queer involvement in hip hop by tracing the genre’s beginnings within Black and Latinx queer music-making practices and spaces, demonstrating that queer and trans rappers draw on Ballroom and other cultural expressions particular to queer and trans communities of color in their work in order to articulate their subject positions. By centering the performances of openly queer and trans artists of color, Queer Voices in Hip Hop reclaims their work as essential to the development and persistence of hip hop in the United States as it tells the story of hip hop’s queer roots.
In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of several major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police brutality and ...mass incarceration, some young black Angelenos turned to holy hip hop—a movement merging Christianity and hip hop culture—to “save” themselves and the city. Converting street corners to open-air churches and gangsta rap beats into anthems of praise, holy hip hoppers used gospel rap to navigate complicated social and spiritual realities and to transform the Southland’s fractured terrains into musical Zions. Armed with beats, rhymes, and bibles, they journeyed through black Lutheran congregations, prison ministries, African churches, reggae dancehalls, hip hop clubs, Nation of Islam meetings, and Black Lives Matter marches. Zanfagna’s fascinating ethnography provides a contemporary and unique view of black LA, offering a much-needed perspective on how music and religion intertwine in people’s everyday experiences.
This collection of transcripts from sessions by certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapists gives therapists, educators, and child welfare and residential treatment professionals a detailed ...understanding of how Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy is used to help children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal development of attachment between parent and child. The book begins with a description of DDP, its essential components, and the ways in which those components are used differentially in different phases of treatment. The transcripts that follow illustrate those components and their uses. They cover a diverse range of clients and families so that the reader can appreciate the depth and breadth of DDP. Both the editor and the therapists themselves provide analysis and commentary on the therapists' goals, impressions, and techniques. This book complements the treatment manual Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy: Essential Methods and Practices, and will be useful in graduate courses on treatment, child welfare, family therapy, and child psychology.
El presente texto se basa en una investigación etnográfica con jóvenes raperos que viven en distintos barrios del partido de La Plata (capital de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina). Con el ...objetivo de contribuir a la comprensión de los mecanismos de construcción del rap, propongo analizar, desde la perspectiva de los mismos actores, sus procesos de formación en tanto músicos, sus prácticas compositivas de improvisación y de escritura de canciones, los criterios de validación y valoración de sus producciones y los distintos espacios sociales en los que se desarrollan estas prácticas, palabras clave: composición, espacio social, expresión, improvisación, rap This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork with young rappers who inhabit different neighborhoods of La Plata (capital of Buenos Aires province). With the goal of contributing to the understanding of the mechanisms of rap songs' construction, we analyze, from the actors' perspective, their training processes as musicians; their compositional practices, including improvisations and songwriting; the validation and valuation criteria regarding their productions; and the different social spaces in which these practices are developed. keywords: composition, expression, improvisation, rap, social space
El presente texto se basa en una investigación etnográfica con jóvenes raperos que viven en distintos barrios del partido de La Plata (capital de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina). Con el ...objetivo de contribuir a la comprensión de los mecanismos de construcción del rap, propongo analizar, desde la perspectiva de los mismos actores, sus procesos de formación en tanto músicos, sus prácticas compositivas de improvisación y de escritura de canciones, los criterios de validación y valoración de sus producciones y los distintos espacios sociales en los que se desarrollan estas prácticas,
Integrins are the principal cell adhesion receptors that mediate leukocyte migration and activation in the immune system. These receptors signal bidirectionally through the plasma membrane in ...pathways referred to as inside-out and outside-in signaling. Each of these pathways is mediated by conformational changes in the integrin structure. Such changes allow high-affinity binding of the receptor with counter-adhesion molecules on the vascular endothelium or extracellular matrix and lead to association of the cytoplasmic tails of the integrins with intracellular signaling molecules. Leukocyte functional responses resulting from outside-in signaling include migration, proliferation, cytokine secretion, and degranulation. Here, we review the key signaling events that occur in the inside-out versus outside-in pathways, highlighting recent advances in our understanding of how integrins are activated by a variety of stimuli and how they mediate a diverse array of cellular responses.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How Hip Hop Became Hit
Pop ...examines the programming practices at commercial radio
stations in the 1980s and early 1990s to uncover how the radio
industry facilitated hip hop's introduction into the musical
mainstream. Constructed primarily by the Top 40 radio format, the
musical mainstream featured mostly white artists for mostly white
audiences. With the introduction of hip hop to these programs, the
radio industry was fundamentally altered, as stations struggled to
incorporate the genre's diverse audience. At the same time, as
artists negotiated expanding audiences and industry pressure to
make songs fit within the confines of radio formats, the sound of
hip hop changed. Drawing from archival research, Amy Coddington
shows how the racial structuring of the radio industry influenced
the way hip hop was sold to the American public, and how the
genre's growing popularity transformed ideas about who constitutes
the mainstream.
Hip-Hop in Africa Clark, Msia Kibona; Williams, Quentin; Ampofo, Akosua Adomako
04/2018
eBook
Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their
lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary,
feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state
...institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global
hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa, Msia Kibona Clark
examines some of Africa's biggest hip-hop scenes and shows how
hip-hop helps us understand specifically African narratives of
social, political, and economic realities.
Clark looks at the use of hip-hop in protest, both as a means of
articulating social problems and as a tool for mobilizing listeners
around those problems. She also details the spread of hip-hop
culture in Africa following its emergence in the United States,
assessing the impact of urbanization and demographics on the spread
of hip-hop culture.
Hip-Hop in Africa is a tribute to a genre and its
artists as well as a timely examination that pushes the study of
music and diaspora in critical new directions. Accessibly written
by one of the foremost experts on African hip-hop, this book will
easily find its place in the classroom.
El rap canción puede abordarse desde múltiples dimensiones y esferas sociales: estética, cultural, artística, política, económica, sociolingüística, entre otras. En su categorización en tanto “rap ...social” (Caldwell 2008) o “rap conciencia” este género posibilita la manifestación de los conflictos que atraviesan los grupos sociales y refuerza aspectos de conformación identitaria. Este trabajo focaliza en dos propuestas estéticas de rap social vinculado con la cosmovisión mapuche: “Urraka negra MC” y “El indio Javi”, a fin de relevar y analizar las interseccionalidades que se articulan en torno a sus poéticas y sus figuras. Se observa que en el espacio discursivo de “Urraka negra MC” se articulan de modo indisociable las categorías de género y etnia, mientras que en “El indio Javi” se ponen de manifiesto las variables de etnia y clase. Ambos raps, con sus especificidades, performan una imagen social artista de rap como cronista y agente de cambio social.
•100% hot mix asphalt recycling is a viable alternative to conventional pavements.•Eleven technologies for 100% HMA recycling were identified and described.•100% RAP production allows material ...related cost savings of 50–70%.•Total recycling reduces emissions by 18kg CO2eq or 35% compared to virgin mixes.•Modified mix design and RAP QC procedures for 100% RAP production are described.
A holistic evaluation of the feasibility of producing 100% recycled mixtures is presented. Eleven technologies readily available for producing 100% Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) hot asphalt mixtures are described in the article and the complementary video (http://youtu.be/coj-e5mhHEQ). The recorded performance of 100% RAP mixtures is analyzed along with identification of typical high RAP distresses. Recommended mix design procedures and the best RAP management strategies are described. A cradle-to-gate analysis of environmental effects indicated 18kg or 35% CO2eq savings per t of produced 100% RAP asphalt mixture compared to virgin mix, while cost analysis showed at least 50% savings in material related expenses.
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