Women's Studies 2283F/G Chapter Notes -Mantra, Afrika Bambaataa, Queen Bitch
1 May 2013
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Unquestionably, afrika bambaataa conceived and promoted it with his worldwide ambassadors of zulus in a grassroots cultural movement that would declara knowledge to be the fifth element of hip hop. Yet it is hip hop that is the context of lil kim"s revolution within a revolution at the musical level of lyricism. Society is rethought and reinterpreted without the separation of hierarchization of rationality and sensuality. A hidden agenda of yearning and gratification of the flesh is bound to be represented by images, by the feeling of nostalgia and finally by rebellion. Any traditional line between knowing, feeling and desiring or between thinking, sexing and creative writing is not just blurred; it"s orgasmically subverted and destroyed. As she images a way out of the ongoing history of slavery, colonialism and imperialism for. Lil kim is presumed by elite definitions to be only an object of knowledge, not a transmitter of knowledge herself.
