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Nicole Lancie SOC 300 April 13, 2006 LATE PAPER The Impact Black Women Havein Hip Hop Week Six: From Fly Girls to Bitches to Ho's African American woman are rarely recognized as primary musical and influential "generators" in contemporary hip hop and black popular culture. In Kyra D. Gaunt's article, Translating Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop: The Musical Vernacular of Black Girls' Play, she makes the argument that black women's musical experience is not perceived as central in shaping popular black musical culture, because there is an "emphasis on male authority, male performance, [and] social experience" (262). When in reality, black girls' musical play such as -double-dutch, "body musicking," hand clap games, cheers-have culturally influenced the "blackness" and rhythmic style of hip hop. Black female emcees are challenging the institutionalized male dominance in the hip hop industry by identify themselves within an "interpretive community" as a-"Queen Mother," "Fly Girl," "Sista with Attitude," or "Lesbian"-to reflect the...

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