{"id":1334,"date":"2008-03-22T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T18:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/03\/07\/memes-for-media-literacy-discussions\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T19:29:11","slug":"memes-for-media-literacy-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/03\/22\/memes-for-media-literacy-discussions\/","title":{"rendered":"memes for media literacy discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mencanstoprape.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/next-anti-sexist-rapper-lupe-fiasco.html\">Lupe Fiasco on sexism<\/a> (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mencanstoprape.blogspot.com\/\">masculinities in media<\/a> blog).  I heard about Lupe Fiasco when someone brought ihis music up in the Q&amp;A after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelericdyson.com\/\">MED<\/a> lecture last month.  I heard a really great song called <em>Kick, Push<\/em> about skateboarding by Lupe Fiasco along with a lot of other great music on the <a href=\"http:\/\/pandora.com\/\">Pandora Radio<\/a> site.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/gabrielteodros\">Gabriel Teodros<\/a> (thanks st!) on multi-racial identity and language in <em>Africa East<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 More and more I feel like punk music doesn&#8217;t speak to the questions that I need help answering, or to my experience, or connecting my experience with bigger things.\u00c2\u00a0 If it does connect with my experience, it seems often to link from my intentional investment in a particular subculture.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s not entirely true, because I think punk culture and the experience of playing music and organizing shows in a small town was, and remains, so honestly and beautifully linked with my experience growing up in central PA (and my parents as college-educated middle class people and the lifestyle that created for me).\u00c2\u00a0 But, that&#8217;s not my whole story, and it&#8217;s more and more unsatisfying to feel so invested in music that seems to lack a language to talk about some things, or has a political motivation without a complete perspective (say, in punk&#8217;s consistent striving to talk about and against racism but doing so without talking about race).\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m searching for, and would like to think that I can help make multicultural music, not stylistically in the Lotus Fest, Puntamaya sort of way, but in terms of theme and perspective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lupe Fiasco on sexism (from masculinities in media blog). I heard about Lupe Fiasco when someone brought ihis music up in the Q&amp;A after the MED lecture last month. I heard a really great song called Kick, Push about skateboarding by Lupe Fiasco along with a lot of other great music on the Pandora Radio&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/03\/22\/memes-for-media-literacy-discussions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">memes for media literacy discussions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,30,248,463],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hiphop","tag-media","tag-race","tag-sexism","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-lw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}