Mona Haydar

Blending Islamic and hip-hop feminisms

Bibliographic Data

ID5774976
AuthorsNahed Eltantawy (High Point University, corresponding author), Judy L Isaksen (High Point University), Judy Isaksen (High Point University)
Year2019
Volume20
Issue6
Pages847-862
Publication date2019-07-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Media Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-0777 • E-ISSN: 1471-5902
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14680777.2019.1636112
OpenAlexW2960646138
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

This paper focuses on Mona Haydar, activist, poet, Syrian-American, Muslim, feminist, and emerging hip-hop artist. Using critical rhetoric alongside a respondent interview, we conduct a cultural study that examines Haydar's recently released music videos, "Hijabi," and "Dog," examining relationships of power and the politics of difference along racial, sexual, religious, cultural and transnational lines. As a cultural study, we address the traditional trio of producer, media content, and audience. Our theoretical foundations are the blending of hip-hop feminism and Islamic feminism; we posit that parallels exist in these two schools of feminist thought, and Haydar, through her activism and music, blends these projects, in order to address her feminist concerns to a global audience. After a brief introduction to Haydar, our argument unfolds in four parts: first we note the role Islam has played in American hip hop; next we unpack the premises of both hip-hop feminism and Islamic feminism; finally, we demonstrate the ways in which Haydar-through our analysis of her music videos-embraces and blends both forms of feminism to resist masculine hegemony, educates her audiences, and, as a byproduct, revitalizes an Islamic feminist spark in hip hop

Gender, Feminism, and Media · Music History and Culture · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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