She says she is Jewish and from Toronto and claims the right to write on salsabecause of her mixed ethnic culinary experiences.

danceworld of salsa provides an excellent case in point. Salsa, which in Spanish meanssauce, is a mixture of several Latin dance forms and has attracted dancers frommany non-Latin ethnicities. Studying salsa dance clubs in London, Urquia (2004)found that such outside patrons regularly engaged in inventive authenticity-workto show that they have the ‘right’ to dance salsa

In this paragraph I will be using the works from Morgan and McCann to illustrate the importance of rap as both a political and social expression but also to point emphasis to the fact that the “mark of criminality” has been rendered a masculine narrative not embodying the experiences and struggles of black women. We can see this glossing over at the beginning of McCann’s work as he focuses in on the post-Cold War politics of the Reagan administration and how there was a heavy push to mass incarcerate Black men. Morgan says that black women are always pushed to the sidelines in these re-tellings of history to embody the political landscape because the voices of the struggle were seen as collective cry between black men through their bars. McCann even admits that this type of symbolism, i.e. the goals and signification of “gangsta” rap, were the fantasies of masculine bravado. The problem with this is then that the women are pushed to the margins and their voices are spoken for because the narrative of the hood encapsulate their experiences. The danger in this is that it gives a one-sided view point that could never reach the political and social aims of the black community where a large demographic weren’t incorporated in the grammar of rap to articulate their thoughts and feelings on the poor conditions and treatment by the government on black communities. However, both Morgan and McCan agree that rap became and still is this break away narrative of using language against itself [OK! does Morgan use the concept/ vocabulary of “signifying”?] to break a social order in order to bring to light the frustrations within the community over the overtly racist and *sexist system. Morgan agrees that there is a voice in rap for black women but it is one of communal accountability to not privilege those more masculine accounts of transgression and freedom but an intersection of both the masculine and feminine perspective. Jaz–So, then, the potential “better politics” that McCann is thinking about at the end of his essay needs to involve an understanding of how the mark of criminality is gendered?  I could be persuaded! 

N.W.A.’s song “F*ck the Police” asserts a profound position of fighting against the oppression of African Americans in the late Twentieth Century, despite the negative, and even combative, diction and tone of the song.

itself a repeated motif in poetry

Dylan is a songwriter, nog a poet'

one-stop shop for the general-interest, budget-mindedconsumer.

“The notion that a song has to sell in order to be a hit feels a little two or three yearsago to me,”

By now your Facebook feed is flooded with these videos. The charm is wearing off.A backlash is brewing.

I have therefore altogether declined to enter regularly upon this defence; yet I am sensible, that there would be something like impropriety in abruptly obtruding upon the Public, without a few words of introduction, Poems so materially different from those upon which general approbation is at present bestowed.

keenly interested to find out that others see the real differently from us.