Media coursework Khaterah

Wider reading on race and Old Town Road Read   this W Magazine deep dive on the Yeehaw agenda   and answer the following questions:  1) What are the visual cues the article lists as linked to the western genre? This included  cowboy hats, cow prints, rhinestones, and fringed suede jackets.   2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  There was a trend in  September  2018 where black pop culture figures were seen wearing cowboy  attire . It was named the "Yeehaw Agenda" by Bri Malandro 3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  As any idea  associated  with America has been overly white  erasing  any  existence  of black cowboys. 4) How has the black cowboy aesthetic been reflected by the fashion industry? There was a "Black Cowboy" exhibition that the studio museum in Harlem held as well a run way for Telfar in fall 2019 New York fashion. 5) Read the section on Lil Nas X and Old Town Road. What does it suggest

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:  1) What is the big debate regarding Old Town Road and genre? There is a big debate over whether the music video Old Town Road should be classified as country music as Billboards had removed it from the countries chart. 2) What do you learn about the background of Lil Nas X and Old Town Road from the podcast transcript? Lil Nas X is a  20-year-old rapper from Atlanta, his birth name is Montero Hill, but he has been calling himself “Lil Nas X” for several years now. By the end of the year on December 3rd 2018 he released a song called “Old Town Road.”  He was able to buy a beat that had country-sounding instrumental to it. The song came from how he was said he was living at home feeling very lonely, feeling like a lonely cowboy, and he decided to pair that feeling with