Media Blog 2: TK

  MUSIC VIDEO: POSTCOLONIAL THEORY: Wider reading on race and Old Town Road Read  this W Magazine deep dive on the Yeehaw agenda  and answer the following questions:  What are the visual cues the article lists as linked to the western genre?  Cowboy hats, cow prints, rhinestones and fringed suede jackets. How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  In September 2018, the trend of black pop-culture figures wearing cowboy garb was dubbed the “Yeehaw Agenda” by  Bri Malandro , a Texas-based pop-culture archivist. Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  The imagery associated with Americana has been overwhelmingly white, so much so that the  Studio Museum in Harlem even held a “Black Cowboy” exhibition  two years ago, featuring photographic works from Kahlil Joseph, Deanna Lawson, and Chandra McCormick that aimed to bring the black cowboy to the forefront of western history. How has the black cowboy aesthetic been reflected by the fashio

   MUSIC VIDEO: OLD TOWN ROAD CSP: O Background and cultural contexts Read  this Vox feature and podcast transcript on Lil Nas X and Old Town Road . Make sure you read the whole thing - including the podcast transcript - then answer the following questions:  What is the big debate regarding Old Town Road and genre? The big debate is whether old town road should be classified as country music. What do you learn about the background of Lil Nas X and Old Town Road from the podcast transcript? He is a 20-year-old rapper from Atlanta. Technically his birth name is Montero Hill, but he has been calling himself “Lil Nas X” for several years now. And last year he joined SoundCloud, as many people do. And by the end of the year in December he released a song called “Old Town Road.” What is the Yeehaw agenda? This is a social movement started by online pop culture archivist Bri Malandro. She created an instagram account to celebrate black cowboy aesthetics in popular culture and reclaim black id