Alyssa Woods

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Assistant Professor College of Arts School of Fine Art and Music Guelph, Ontario awoods08@uoguelph.ca Office: (519) 824-4120 ext. 54985

Bio/Research

Dr. Woods studies popular music, especially race, gender, and politics in hip-hop music and culture. She has recently explored the trend of female artists who have appropriated and re-imagined the “booty video.”

Employing strategies of parody and hyperbole, artists such as Beyoncé, Lily...


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Bio/Research

Dr. Woods studies popular music, especially race, gender, and politics in hip-hop music and culture. She has recently explored the trend of female artists who have appropriated and re-imagined the “booty video.”

Employing strategies of parody and hyperbole, artists such as Beyoncé, Lily Allen and Nicki Minaj have reclaimed the discourse surrounding the female body from within the hyper-masculine norms of hip-hop culture.


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