{"622684":{"#nid":"622684","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Horses in the Back","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u0026nbsp;Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/wilson_3\u0022\u003EJoycelyn Wilson\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;wrote \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bittersoutherner.com\/from-the-southern-perspective\/horses-in-the-back-lil-nas-x-and-cultural-appropriation\u0022\u003E\u0026quot;Horses in the Back\u0026quot;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Bitter Southerner,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EJune 17.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELet\u0026rsquo;s say it again for those in the back: Trap music is the most significant cultural innovation to arise from Southern hip hop \u0026mdash; and one of the most critical discoveries in American black music over the last quarter century.\u003C\/strong\u003E The latest example comes from Montero Lamar Hill, the 20-year old Atlanta rapper named Lil Nas X who, in just six months, has disturbed the groove of the country music industry with his viral hit \u0026ldquo;Old Town Road.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELil Nas X has turned the discussion of cultural appropriation on its head \u0026hellip; again.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bittersoutherner.com\/from-the-southern-perspective\/horses-in-the-back-lil-nas-x-and-cultural-appropriation\u0022\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-06-21 16:28:55","changed_gmt":"2019-06-21 16:28:55","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Shu Lin","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/bittersoutherner.com\/from-the-southern-perspective\/horses-in-the-back-lil-nas-x-and-cultural-appropriation","dateline":{"date":"2019-06-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-06-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"618452":{"id":"618452","type":"image","title":"Joycelyn Wilson","body":null,"created":"1551189983","gmt_created":"2019-02-26 14:06:23","changed":"1551189983","gmt_changed":"2019-02-26 14:06:23","alt":"Joycelyn Wilson","file":{"fid":"235401","name":"19c10302-p76-100.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/19c10302-p76-100.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/19c10302-p76-100.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":479729,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/19c10302-p76-100.jpg?itok=9TurU-7_"}}},"media_ids":["618452"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"174257","name":"joycelyn wilson"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}