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.H I P H O P M AT T E R Swas a remarkable display of her range as a songwriter, co-producer,artist, and entertainer.Despite all the pre-release excitement, no one was prepared for the kind of success the album would achieve.The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill hit the streets the first week in September and immediately claimed the top spots on both the Bill-board 200 and Top R&B Albums.The first-week sales were oƒ the charts and the 422,500 units sold set a record for a female solo artist.For four straight weeks the album dominated the charts and estab-lished Hill, despite her own reluctance, as a pop superstar.Hill’s spectacular solo debut was a breath of fresh air for the musicgenre, rap, and the cultural movement, hip hop, both growing staleeven during or perhaps because of their commercial triumphs.Thatshe was a woman made her accomplishments in a genre dominatedby men all the more significant.One of the dominant tendencies inhip hop’s rise was a hypermasculine style and exterior that providedlittle, if any, room for women who were strong, independent, andcompetent producers or performers.By 1998 few women dotted rap’scorporate landscape.Back in the day, the male-dominated industry had its share offemale MCs as names like Roxanne Shante, MC Lyte, Salt-N-Pepa,and Queen Latifah were notable fixtures in hip hop.As the music andthe formulas that shape rap harden, female MCs are fading from thebright lights that promote the game’s biggest names.Hill stands outin sharp contrast, breaking through the strict gender barriers thatoften restrict the female body and voice to the male sexual fanta-sies that pervade the world of hip hop.Significantly, Hill does notshy away from female sexual power and pleasure; she simply doesnot make such issues the only attributes in her appeal and self-presentation.Her strong lyrics, beautifully arranged compositions,and inspiring lessons about relationships, self-pride, and communitybreak the mold in an industry that typically requires women to ac-centuate their sexual selves rather than their musical selves.Because The Miseducation cut across several genres—including72 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.H I P H O P M AT T E R Swas a remarkable display of her range as a songwriter, co-producer,artist, and entertainer.Despite all the pre-release excitement, no one was prepared for the kind of success the album would achieve.The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill hit the streets the first week in September and immediately claimed the top spots on both the Bill-board 200 and Top R&B Albums.The first-week sales were oƒ the charts and the 422,500 units sold set a record for a female solo artist.For four straight weeks the album dominated the charts and estab-lished Hill, despite her own reluctance, as a pop superstar.Hill’s spectacular solo debut was a breath of fresh air for the musicgenre, rap, and the cultural movement, hip hop, both growing staleeven during or perhaps because of their commercial triumphs.Thatshe was a woman made her accomplishments in a genre dominatedby men all the more significant.One of the dominant tendencies inhip hop’s rise was a hypermasculine style and exterior that providedlittle, if any, room for women who were strong, independent, andcompetent producers or performers.By 1998 few women dotted rap’scorporate landscape.Back in the day, the male-dominated industry had its share offemale MCs as names like Roxanne Shante, MC Lyte, Salt-N-Pepa,and Queen Latifah were notable fixtures in hip hop.As the music andthe formulas that shape rap harden, female MCs are fading from thebright lights that promote the game’s biggest names.Hill stands outin sharp contrast, breaking through the strict gender barriers thatoften restrict the female body and voice to the male sexual fanta-sies that pervade the world of hip hop.Significantly, Hill does notshy away from female sexual power and pleasure; she simply doesnot make such issues the only attributes in her appeal and self-presentation.Her strong lyrics, beautifully arranged compositions,and inspiring lessons about relationships, self-pride, and communitybreak the mold in an industry that typically requires women to ac-centuate their sexual selves rather than their musical selves.Because The Miseducation cut across several genres—including72 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]