Presentation

Ileana Corral

-In the article, "Bob, Bono and Tony B: The Popular Artist as Politician" by John street,  I had found that what John Street is trying to figure out is why artists become Involved in politics, why particular artists are involved with particular issues and why politicians take notice. The way Street finds out is by relying on different sources and their findings of why certain artists engage into politics. Street uses multiple findings from different people to use them as references so that his point can become clear. Street finds that in genre, it can be one possible condition of an artist's political involvement but it does not give "an exhaustive explanation".

-In the article, "Where My Girls At?" by Rana A. Emerson, it is reflecting the lives of Black women performers and exploring the representations of Black womanhood as expressed in the music videos of those Black women performers. Emerson uses samples of videos by African American women singers, rappers, and musicians which were produced and distributed at the end of the 1990s and which are fully analyzed to study the representation of the Black women's appearance in music videos. The findings of this study result in a complex and often contradictory and multifaceted representation of Black womanhood. The media and popular culture are the primary sources in which the construction of commonsense notions of Black womanhood. Emerson used 56 music videos that featured Black women performers using the method of "theoretical sampling". These videos were tape-recorded from cable network such as BET, VH1, MTV and were collected in 1998 in January.