scholarly journals Reconstructing gender, personal narrative, and performance at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa L. Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival ◽  
And Performance

Killing Me Softly or on the Miseducation of (Love and) Hip Hop

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 785-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin M. Boylorn
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Rural South ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Poetic Prose

In this bluesy poetic prose, the author engages poetry, personal narrative, and performance to reflect on how hip hop served as a soundtrack for her transition to womanhood in the rural south. She uses lyrics from Killing Me Softly (originated by Roberta Flack in the 70s and repopularized by The Fugees in 1996) and other songs from the 90s to tell stories about growing up, love, loss, depression, and abuse situated within her race, culture, sex, and social class. She muses how the cadences of sound and the words of songs helped her become a writer and feminist. She also reflects on how her formal and informal education has informed and been informed by her relationship to hip hop, which at times has fluctuated from fixation to disillusionment.

Complicating Counterspaces: Intersectionality and the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 473-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. McConnell ◽  
Nathan R. Todd ◽  
Charlynn Odahl-Ruan ◽  
Mona Shattell
Keyword(s):  
Music Festival ◽  
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
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