[Brad Osborn]

Hi Everybody. I replied to Walt privately with some readings from my own version of this class, but it’s too important not to share here as well:

Attas, Robin. 2019. “Music Theory as Social Justice: Pedagogical Applications of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly.” Music Theory Online 25/1
< http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.19.25.1/mto.19.25.1.attas.html>

Balaji, Murali. 2010. “Vixen Resistin’: Redefining Black Womanhood in Hip-Hop Music Videos.” Journal of Black Studies 41/1: 5–20.

Fink, Robert. 2011. “Goal-Directed Soul? Analyzing Rhythmic Teleology in African American Popular Music.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 64/1.

*Heidemann, Kate. 2016. “A System for Describing Vocal Timbre in Popular Song.” Music Theory Online 22/1. <http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.16.22.1/mto. 16.22.1.heidemann.html>

(*Kate’s article does include stuff about white musicians, but the focus of her analysis is Aretha Franklin).

Kajikawa, Loren. 2018. “‘Young, Scrappy, and Hungry’: Hamilton, Hip-Hop, and Race.” American Music 36/4: 467–486.

Sterbenz, Maeve. 2017. “Movement, Music, Feminism: An Analysis of Movement-Music Interactions and the Articulation of Masculinity in Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Yonkers’ Music Video.” Music Theory Online 23/2. 
 <http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.17.23.2/mto.17.23.2.sterbenz.html>

 

Hope this helps,

Brad Osborn

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