FLIP THE SCRIPT

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Bibliography

If you would like to read more of the work Arusa referenced, consulted or generally enjoyed in the process of writing Flip The Script and want to explore further, a full reading list can be found below:

• Asare, Felix. “Female Rappers: Feminist Icons or Misogyny Profiteers?” Varsity Online.

• Bennett, Andy. “Rappin’ on the Tyne: White Hip Hop Culture in Northeast England – An Ethnographic Study.” The Sociological Review, vol. 47, no. 1, Feb. 1999, pp. 1–24. DOI.org (Crossref).

• Bernard, Jesse. “A Brief But In-Depth Dive Into the 40 Year History of UK Hip-Hop & Rap.” Okayplayer, 15 Jan. 2020.

• Blitz, Shortee. “Ty and the History of UK Rap.” Mixmag.

• Bossi, Andrea. “These Are 3 Of The Biggest Drivers Of Gender Inequality In Music.” Forbes.

• BPI. “Rap and Hip Hop Soars in 2020 Fuelled by Streaming, New BPI Insights Show.” BPI.

• Chrisafis, Angelique. “Ms Dynamite’s Victory Blasts Mercury Norms.” The Guardian, 18 Sept. 2002.

• Clark, Msia Kibona. “Feminisms in African Hip Hop.” Meridians, vol. 17, no. 2, Nov. 2018, pp. 383–400. DOI.org (Crossref).

• Collins, Hattie. “We can beatbox just as well as the boys.” The Guardian, 1 Nov. 2007.

• Cooper, Brittney C., et al., editors. The Crunk Feminist Collection. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2017.

• Durham, Aisha, et al. “The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 38, no. 3, Mar. 2013, pp. 721–37. DOI.org (Crossref).

• Egere-Cooper, Matilda. “Missing in Action: Where Have All the Talented Female MCs Gone?” The Independent, 29 Oct. 2007.

• Evans, Catherine. “Ladies of Rage: Musicians Find a ‘safe Space’ in Sisterhood.” BBC News, 8 Mar. 2021.

• Fitzgerald, Kiana. “Why Can There Only Be One Dominant Woman in Rap?” Complex.

• Grant, Katie. “Britain’s First Muslim Hip-Hop Duo on ‘uniting People’ with Rap.” The Independent, 11 Dec. 2015.

• Granzin, Amy. “Speech Debelle: Speech Therapy.” Pitchfork, 6 Aug. 2009.

• Gunn, Tam. “An Oral History of Legendary Record Store Deal Real.” Fact Magazine, 4 Apr. 2015.

• Hobson, Janell, and R. Dianne Bartlow, editors. “Introduction: Representin’: Women, Hip-Hop, and Popular Music.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, vol. 8, no. 1, Oct. 2007, pp. 1–14. DOI.org (Crossref).

• Hope, Clover. The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop. Abrams Image, 2021.

• Hunter, Margaret, and Alhelí Cuenca. “Nicki Minaj and the Changing Politics of Hip-Hop: Real Blackness, Real Bodies, Real Feminism?” Feminist Formations, vol. 29, no. 2, 2017, pp. 26–46. DOI.org (Crossref).

• Iandoli, Kathy. God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop. Dey Street Books, 2019.

• Johnson, Imani Kai. “From Blues Women to B-Girls: Performing Badass Femininity.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan. 2014, pp. 15–28. DOI.org (Crossref).

• Keyes, Cheryl L. “Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance.” The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 113, no. 449, 2000, p. 255. DOI.org (Crossref).

• ---. “‘We’re More than a Novelty, Boys’: Strategies of Female Rappers in the Rap Music Tradition.” Feminist Messages: Coding in Women’s Folk Culture, edited by Joan Newlon Radner, University of Illinois Press, 1993.

• Low, Peter. UK Hip Hop: The Story.

• May, Claudia. “‘NOTHING POWERFUL LIKE WORDS SPOKEN’: Black British ‘Femcees’ and the Sampling of Hip-Hop as a Theoretical Trope.” Cultural Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, July 2013, pp. 611–49. DOI.org (Crossref).

• McIntosh, Steven. “Lady Leshurr: How Tooth Brushing Made a YouTube Star.” BBC News, 11 Apr. 2018. www.bbc.co.uk.

• Peoples, Whitney A. “‘Under Construction’: Identifying Foundations of Hip-Hop Feminism and Exploring Bridges between Black Second-Wave and Hip-Hop Feminisms.” Meridians, vol. 8, no. 1, Sept. 2008, pp. 19–52. DOI.org (Crossref).

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• Perry, Imani. Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop. Duke University Press, 2004.

• Pough, Gwendolyn D., et al. Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology. 2007.

• Rogers, Jude. “Neneh Cherry: ‘Rap Is a Kind of Freedom.’” The Guardian, 19 Jan. 2020.

• Rollefson, J. Griffith. Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality. The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

• Rose, Tricia. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. University Press of New England, 1994.

• ---. The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop--and Why It Matters. BasicCivitas, 2008.

• Scott, Cheraine Donalea. “Policing Black Sound: Performing UK Grime and Rap Music under Routinised Surveillance.” Soundings, vol. 75, no. 75, Sept. 2020, pp. 55–65. DOI.org (Crossref).

• Sheriff, Isatta. “Women in UK Hip-Hop.” M Magazine, 11 Mar. 2021.

• Swash, Rosie. “Speech Debelle Wins Mercury Music Prize.” The Guardian, 8 Sept. 2009.

• Thorp, Eric. “How Hip Hop Magazines Shaped UK Rap as We Know It.” Huck Magazine, 31 Oct. 2019.

• Trammell, Matthew. “Lady Leshurr Crosses the Atlantic.” The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2015.

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• Wolfson, Sam. “Little Simz Is Going to Change British History, One Step at a Time.” Vice, 8 Mar. 2016.

• ---. “Rap and the Gender Gap: Why Are Female MCs Still Not Being Heard?” The Guardian, 9 Sept. 2017.

• Women in CTRL. Seat At The Table, Jul. 2020.

• Wood, Andy. “‘Original London Style’: London Posse and the Birth of British Hip Hop.” Atlantic Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, Aug. 2009, pp. 175–90. DOI.org (Crossref).

• Younger, Briana. “Is Rap Finally Ready to Embrace Its Women?” The New Yorker, Dec. 2018.