Discourse
What is blackface
1st American popular entertainment genre, built around the idea of white people performing blackness
The most insightful scholary work on whiteness comes from?
Black scholars (starting at 20th century with W.E.B. Du Bois & today w/ Toni Morrison & other)
In the late 1960 & 1970 historians & cultural critics began to think in new ways about?
Common sense ideas that we assume in everyday life (nation, race, class, gender)
Every time we think of using one of these ideas(think about what's good/bad ugly/pretty) we are helping to refine those ideas by applying them to new situations & context. In other words, we are part of a larger conversation in society about what the mean. What is this called?
Discourse
True or false. Discourse does operate in isolation.
False(they rely on one another)
True or false. Studying history, scholars realized that these common-sense ideas we use every day are universal and set in stone.
False. (they are not set in stone)
Despite major legal reforms, its will documented that racism perisits in ?
Key instutations (criminal justice system, law enforcument, finical & rel estate, education, & politics)
Historians realized that the way we perceive things are determined largely in part by?
Language, the words that we use to speak about them
In the US when did the Germans & Irish become fully white under the umbrella term Caucasian
Later when many of these immigrants had come to U.S., they literally changed race something that if race is a bio factor shouldn't be possible
Did only white people perform blackness?
No both black & white performers composed & performed in the genres
In 1860, German & Irish immigrants to the US we consider?
Not white but teutunic & cetic
Where does the common sense idea come from?
They depend on language & languange in turn depends on it
True or false. In the early 20th century debates ranged if Italians and Jews were really white
True
True or fasle. Over 150 years, entertainers in this country have made ery good money by performing racail steretypes to audince
True
What is discourse?
a tool that scholars use to show how music & society are connected
If we view identy as product of biology fact we ?
become blind to these possibilitys
General def for masculine
behavior, things, words & ideas that are mainly typical for men in a given context
General def for feminity
behavior, things, words, & ideas that are mainly typical for women in a given context
What is the general def of blackface?
behaviors, things, words & ideas that are considered black or assoicated w/ the black race
How do we define terms like masculine and fem behaviors?
definitions vary because these are socail discourse not bio facts
The concept of __ is important because it helps use draw connections between music and society
discourse
Each of use has serveral __ like gender,race,class,age
identities
Discourse definition
is a shifting contest dialogue in a society that creates or constructs an identity
They common sense ideas (race, gender) are in accordance with societys...
language, perceptions, and recognizing that they ideas arent set in stone but doesn't make them not real
Even definations of race are found in __ rather than ___
language; biology
Only in the last 40 years the legal system in the U.S. abolished the use of tace to determine?
legal rights and privilages
There many be a tradition of performing whiteness in American Culture, its boundaries are far less clear because?
our culture has historically choosen not to see things this ways
Rap artist use discouse to do what?
reinforce or undermine eachother
Why is discourse inmporant for new school rap?
some styles most notable message rap & gansta rap have provactive things to about soceity
We can hear & see how musicans join a discourse by analazying?
the Identitiy that they perform musically
True or false. Blackness have been at the heart of American Music ever since, from songs of 19th century, to ragtime music & jazz, to Elvis Presley's covers to R&B, which created rock & roll, to rap music
true
True or false. Laws about who is legally black or native American have varied greatly in American between time & localities
true
True or false. We dont see whiteness talk about as much expect perhaps in joking refernces to yuppie culture
true
True or false. we have also learned that thinking about masc, fem & authenticty, as discourse rather than bio facts, can help use to understand how these rap pieces relate to society and social issue
true
true or false. Women & men can perform masculinity
true
In our class, how will we use this tool of discourse to understnad rap?
understand how rap performance has changed sonce 1974 & to think about raps place in soceity
Which type of people are assumed to have no race at all?
white because whiteness is still the norm in American culture at large
In a racist society, like U.S., race determines what?
who belongs to what group & which groups were entitled to what privilage
