CMN 2180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dr. Dre, White Trash
7 Apr 2018
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Feminist groups thought the lyrics had some kind of late message: these groups never trusted his lyrics. Put him against lobby groups: people tried to ban his songs and lyrics. Male behaviour not acting the way males should: gender construction in his mind. The name calling: calling men sissy, pansies, etc. ", there is a problem with men that they are acting too feminine, criticism to boybands. Hip hop centers around a masculine genre. Urban white kids love his songs: kids flipped when they knew i was produced by dr. dre, they were instantly hooked and connected with me because i looked like them. Attempts to mimic where he grew up. Inner black city life: realism, targeting minorities and being too aggressive, depictions about gender/violence. Believes that boy and girl groups are sick. You learn it from somebody else, you"re playing the role: you"ve never challenged these assumptions about gender.
