Popular music has not decreased its use of innuendo. Two examples:
"Candy Shop" by 50 Cent
"Peaches and Cream" by 112
Both these songs are rap, which one could consider the modern equivalent of Rock 'n' Roll: predominantly African-American roots, also very popular with white suburban middle-class youth. Both genres of music are also associated with the "tough" crowd, and blamed for a large number of social ills by the mainstream.
Discussion question: "Black" music has been the origin of three of the most dominant forms of "rebellious" music in the 20th century (the third being jazz). The types of rebellion displayed in these genres of music is generally sexual (though also violent in the cases of rap). How does the sexuality of "black" music mesh with how whites have historically feared the sexuality of black men?
"Candy Shop" by 50 Cent
"Peaches and Cream" by 112
Both these songs are rap, which one could consider the modern equivalent of Rock 'n' Roll: predominantly African-American roots, also very popular with white suburban middle-class youth. Both genres of music are also associated with the "tough" crowd, and blamed for a large number of social ills by the mainstream.
Discussion question: "Black" music has been the origin of three of the most dominant forms of "rebellious" music in the 20th century (the third being jazz). The types of rebellion displayed in these genres of music is generally sexual (though also violent in the cases of rap). How does the sexuality of "black" music mesh with how whites have historically feared the sexuality of black men?
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