Please read Tricia Rose's "Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music" AND Pauline Oliveros's "And Don't Call them Lady Composers." write your own answers to the following questions. (You can all thereadings online google it)
Your answers to the following questions should total between 300-500 words. You will be graded on spelling and grammar. Feel free to cite the assigned articles in your responses, but please use citations (author, page number) (Rose, 42).
You will be graded based on how thorough and considered your answers are. These articles deal with sensitive issues regarding race, class, and gender, please be respectful in your responses.
QUESTIONS:
1. According to Rose, what insight can be gained by examining the work of female rappers? (2-3 sentences)
2. Rose identifies "three central themes" that predominate in the works of black female rappers. Please list and describe (define) each of the three terms. (3-4 sentences)
3. Compare Salt ‘N' Pepa's "Tramp" to MC Lyte's "Paper Thin." What do they critique and how do they critique? Why does Rose call these two raps "dialogic"? How do these example illustrate Rose's broader arguments about sexual politics in rap? (4-6 sentences)
4. Why have black women MCs resisted being labeled feminists? How does Oliveros's essay relate to this issue? (4-5 sentences)
5. Oliveros wrote her essay over 40 years ago and Tricia Rose's essay is over 20 years old; in these works Black women MCs and white women composers both seek cultural legibility (recognition as legitimate), but they face different yet interrelated systems of oppression and power. In your opinion, what has changed (or not changed) in this situation since they wrote these essays were published? What can you do to increase the legibility of women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community? (3-6 sentences)