Katy Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6407019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katy Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katy |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The influence of the nation of Islam on African American singers
This article explores the responses of African American musicians to the strictures placed on the production and circulation of information following the war on terror post 9/11. This date marks the intensification of the challenging of ‘war on terror’ ideology by black artists. 9/11 also ushered in a new morality in terms of which artists and democratic voices are subjected to extreme control by the government. Most black popular musicians, thou…
The content of form in Immortal Technique's Musical Oeuvre
In African-American literary thought, Henry Louis Gates's book, The signifying monkey (1988) was a breakthrough in so far as it argued for a vernacular theory for cultural expression in black communities. However, some critics missed Gates's point, and began to suggest that a singing culture is biologically inherent in black people; that the evolution of different musical styles are sui generis to black people only and that unless one is coming f…
Gendering Islam
The aim of this article is to explore how black musicians, particularly those who proclaim a close relation with Islam, are using the cultural images from Islam to create new identities within black communities. Little has been written on the influence of Islam on female artists in African American communities. Since influence is not a one way road, this paper reveals that some female African American singers have appropriated the cultural symbol…
Re-locating South African hip hop into global intercultural communication
The founding ideology of modern South Africa followed a unique path that favoured the discourse of racial purity, exclusion of political rights for blacks and the silencing of black narratives justified in the phenomena of ‘separate development’, officially called the apartheid system in 1948. In response to these exclusive racial politics, Africans in South Africa, with significant assistance from African countries from the north, gained indepen…
Reading the Zimbabwean National Anthem as Political Biography in the Context of Crisis
The aim of this article is to render thinkable the idea of reading the Zimbabwean national anthem, Simudzai Mureza weZimbabwe, as a political biography. Biographies are people's lives narrated by others. However, the act of writing the lives of the nation in the form of an anthem, and then projecting these experiences as epitomising the lives of the individuals within the nation, is in fact marked by a disjuncture. This happens because by their v…
Chinese Hip hop music
Just as China has opened the country to economic free trade and financial liberalisation, so the country has also witnessed significant developments in the cultural fronts. One such development that is fast gaining currency is the presence of American-derived Hip hop music in Chinese restaurants and music centres patronised by Chinese youths. Chinese youth who have had contact with the outside world are mostly responsible for bringing the musical…
South-South cultural cooperation
Although there has been substantial exchange of commercial goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa, little has been written about the two countries’ cultural exchanges that predate colonialism. The aim of this article is firstly to explore the musical global flows that were initiated by the Zimbabwean-born Dorothy Masuka and the different kinds of musical cooperations that Masuka entered into with South Africa's musical legend, Miriam Makeba, and…
Critical debates on the politics of representing black American women in musical video productions
There is a widely-held perception that male-produced music videos accord women low status and describe stereotyped women as ‘bitch’, ‘video vixen’. There is some truth that male artists and producers slot the image of women into the frame in which women are ‘othered’ as inferior and morally degraded. However, this article will explore the following: When women flaunt their sexualities and bodies in either male- or female-produced music videos, is…
Religion, music and the question of social justice in selected African American singers
This article explores the theme of religion in the lyrics of Kanye West's Jesus Walks, Scarface's Somebody and Lupe Fiasco's Muhammad Walks Lyrics. Since the time of slavery, African Americans have evolved the musical genre described as Negro spirituals. While these songs mined themes on the quest for freedom, they also offered a veiled critique of the capitalist system that forcibly brought blacks to America. Black musicians have used songs with…
‘Sonic Jihad’
On 11 September, 2001 the American Twin Towers and the Pentagon became targets of what the American President George W. Bush described as an act of terrorism on the American people. The so-called ‘War on Terror’ that ensued established a new world order in which America reserved the right to militarily intervene in any country in pursuit of the so-called terrorists. The Taliban of Afghanistan fell. Saddam of Iraq was hanged. Muslims all over the …
Islamic popular music and the discourses of social revolution
Critics of Islamic popular music have tended to explore open modes of rebellion in black communities of America. However, the actual popular music does not always mine open political themes. There are new discourses produced in Islamic popular music. These discourses focus more on the capacity of black Muslim communities to improve their immediate communities. The themes explored in this popular musical genre emphasise social themes such as the m…
The portrayal of Africans in agricultural films of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
One of the most effective cultural tools used by the colonial governments in Africa to make their rule acceptable to African indigenous populations was film. In Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe) the colonial government created the Central Film Unit whose major aim was to teach Africans new agricultural methods. The response by Africans to this colonial initiative was mixed. Some welcomed and enjoyed the films and made use of the skills that the fi…
The portrayal of Africans in agricultural films of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
One of the most effective cultural tools used by the colonial governments in Africa to make their rule acceptable to African indigenous populations was film. In Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe) the colonial government created the Central Film Unit whose major aim was to teach Africans new agricultural methods. The response by Africans to this colonial initiative was mixed. Some welcomed and enjoyed the films and made use of the skills that the fi…
‘Sonic Jihad’
On 11 September, 2001 the American Twin Towers and the Pentagon became targets of what the American President George W. Bush described as an act of terrorism on the American people. The so-called ‘War on Terror’ that ensued established a new world order in which America reserved the right to militarily intervene in any country in pursuit of the so-called terrorists. The Taliban of Afghanistan fell. Saddam of Iraq was hanged. Muslims all over the …
Islamic popular music and the discourses of social revolution
Critics of Islamic popular music have tended to explore open modes of rebellion in black communities of America. However, the actual popular music does not always mine open political themes. There are new discourses produced in Islamic popular music. These discourses focus more on the capacity of black Muslim communities to improve their immediate communities. The themes explored in this popular musical genre emphasise social themes such as the m…
The portrayal of Africans in agricultural films of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
One of the most effective cultural tools used by the colonial governments in Africa to make their rule acceptable to African indigenous populations was film. In Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe) the colonial government created the Central Film Unit whose major aim was to teach Africans new agricultural methods. The response by Africans to this colonial initiative was mixed. Some welcomed and enjoyed the films and made use of the skills that the fi…
South-South cultural cooperation
Although there has been substantial exchange of commercial goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa, little has been written about the two countries’ cultural exchanges that predate colonialism. The aim of this article is firstly to explore the musical global flows that were initiated by the Zimbabwean-born Dorothy Masuka and the different kinds of musical cooperations that Masuka entered into with South Africa's musical legend, Miriam Makeba, and…
Critical debates on the politics of representing black American women in musical video productions
There is a widely-held perception that male-produced music videos accord women low status and describe stereotyped women as ‘bitch’, ‘video vixen’. There is some truth that male artists and producers slot the image of women into the frame in which women are ‘othered’ as inferior and morally degraded. However, this article will explore the following: When women flaunt their sexualities and bodies in either male- or female-produced music videos, is…
Religion, music and the question of social justice in selected African American singers
This article explores the theme of religion in the lyrics of Kanye West's Jesus Walks, Scarface's Somebody and Lupe Fiasco's Muhammad Walks Lyrics. Since the time of slavery, African Americans have evolved the musical genre described as Negro spirituals. While these songs mined themes on the quest for freedom, they also offered a veiled critique of the capitalist system that forcibly brought blacks to America. Black musicians have used songs with…
Reading the Zimbabwean National Anthem as Political Biography in the Context of Crisis
The aim of this article is to render thinkable the idea of reading the Zimbabwean national anthem, Simudzai Mureza weZimbabwe, as a political biography. Biographies are people's lives narrated by others. However, the act of writing the lives of the nation in the form of an anthem, and then projecting these experiences as epitomising the lives of the individuals within the nation, is in fact marked by a disjuncture. This happens because by their v…
Chinese Hip hop music
Just as China has opened the country to economic free trade and financial liberalisation, so the country has also witnessed significant developments in the cultural fronts. One such development that is fast gaining currency is the presence of American-derived Hip hop music in Chinese restaurants and music centres patronised by Chinese youths. Chinese youth who have had contact with the outside world are mostly responsible for bringing the musical…
Re-locating South African hip hop into global intercultural communication
The founding ideology of modern South Africa followed a unique path that favoured the discourse of racial purity, exclusion of political rights for blacks and the silencing of black narratives justified in the phenomena of ‘separate development’, officially called the apartheid system in 1948. In response to these exclusive racial politics, Africans in South Africa, with significant assistance from African countries from the north, gained indepen…
The influence of the nation of Islam on African American singers
This article explores the responses of African American musicians to the strictures placed on the production and circulation of information following the war on terror post 9/11. This date marks the intensification of the challenging of ‘war on terror’ ideology by black artists. 9/11 also ushered in a new morality in terms of which artists and democratic voices are subjected to extreme control by the government. Most black popular musicians, thou…
The content of form in Immortal Technique's Musical Oeuvre
In African-American literary thought, Henry Louis Gates's book, The signifying monkey (1988) was a breakthrough in so far as it argued for a vernacular theory for cultural expression in black communities. However, some critics missed Gates's point, and began to suggest that a singing culture is biologically inherent in black people; that the evolution of different musical styles are sui generis to black people only and that unless one is coming f…
Gendering Islam
The aim of this article is to explore how black musicians, particularly those who proclaim a close relation with Islam, are using the cultural images from Islam to create new identities within black communities. Little has been written on the influence of Islam on female artists in African American communities. Since influence is not a one way road, this paper reveals that some female African American singers have appropriated the cultural symbol…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Music History and Culture (10 works) · Literature (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Musical (8 works) · History (7 works) · Lyrics (7 works)