Annotated Bibliography
Bruce, La Marr Jurelle. ““The People Inside My Head, Too”: Madness, Black Womanhood, and the Radical Performance of Lauryn Hill.” African American Review, vol. 45 no. 3, 2012, pp.371-389. Project Muse, 2012, muse.jhu.edu/article/520202, Accessed 10 May 10, 2018.
La Marr Jurelle Bruce is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland who specializes in African American culture and social contexts. His upcoming book explores African American artists who use “madness” as a form of radical creativity. “The People Inside My Head, Too” connects Hill’s post-success behavior with black womanhood in the 21st century. This source is not important for my paper because it focuses more on Hill’s legacy, which…show more content… Academy of Achievement, 18 Jun. 2000, web.archive.org/web/20130629040508/http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/hil1int-1, Accessed 25 April 2018.
Lauryn Hill is the artist behind the critically acclaimed album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”. The Academy of Achievement interview with Lauryn Hill is a moderately important for my paper because it introduces her perspective on important events and emotions in her life.
Hodge, Daniel White. “Methods for the Prophetic: Tupac Shakur, Lauryn Hill and the Case for ethnolifehistory.” Religion and Hip Hop, edited by Monica Miller, Routledge, 2012.
Daniel White Hodge is an Associate Professor of Intercultural Communications at North Park University in Chicago. His main research interests are the intersections of faith and Hip-Hop culture and is a recognized urban youth culture expect & cultural literacy scholar. “Methods for the Prophetic” discusses religious references and ethnolifehistory in Shakur and Hill’s music. This is a moderately important source for my paper because I use it for discovering the religious connotations in Hill’s music.
McCarthy, Kate. “Not Pretty Girls?: Sexuality, Spirituality and Gender Construction in Women’s Rock Music. The Journal of Popular Culture, 39: 69-94, 18 Jan. 2006, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2006.00204.x, Accessed 10 May…show more content… “It’s Finally Time to Stop Caring About Lauryn Hill.” Cuepoint-Medium, 23 September 2014, medium.com/cuepoint/its-finally-time-to-stop-caring-about-lauryn-hill-e822d4dc22db, Accessed 25 April 2018.
Stefan Schumacher is the author of Death by Strip Mall. He regularly comments on music, sports, entertainment, investing and culture. “It’s Finally Time to Stop Caring About Lauryn Hill” discusses one person’s opinion of Lauryn Hill after her public disappearance and the release of Unplugged 2.0. This is not an important source for my paper, but it does provide an interesting perspective on the average audience opinion of her in the 21st century.
Stukes, Patricia Ann. Resurrecting Womanist Theory from the Lyrics of India.Arie, Lauryn Hill and Me’shell Ndegeocello: The Performance and Pedagogy of Race and Gender Politics. Texas Woman’s University, 2002.
Patricia Ann Stukes is a professor of sociology at the Texas Woman’s University. “Resurrection Womanist Theory” is her thesis that Stukes submitted for her Master of Arts degree. Her thesis provides a feminist analysis of Hill’s lyrics in a black woman’s America. This is a relatively important source for my paper because of how it considers Hill’s lyrics with respect to a young black woman’s aspirations, fears, issues and
