| 词条 | Toni Blackman |
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| name = Toni Blackman | background = solo_singer | image = | caption = | birth_name = | alias = Miss Blackman, T-lala, Virgo One | birth_place = Pittsburg, California, U.S. | origin = San Francisco Bay Area, California | death_date = | death_place = | genre = Hip hop, hip hop soul, global hip hop, spoken word | occupation = Rapper, lyricist, MC, freestyle MC, songwriter, poet, educator, actress, author | years_active = 1994–present | label = Independent Ear | associated_acts = Freestyle Union, Daughters of the Cipher, Hip Hop Arts Movement (HHAM), Earthdriver | website = http://www.toniblackman.com }}Toni Blackman[1] is an American rapper (specializing in freestyle hip-hop), actress, and writer who was the first hip-hop ambassador to the U.S. State Department.[2] Additionally, she was selected as a 2006 Rhythm Road touring artist and subsequently served as on the selection committee for American Music Abroad (formerly Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rhythm Road) with American Voices.[2][3][4][5] Life and careerThe first Hip Hop Cultural Envoy to travel with the State Department, Blackman served in Senegal, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Botswana and Swaziland where she also delivered lectures on hip hop music and culture.[6] Toni has also traveled throughout Europe, Angola, Brazil, Canada and toured Southeast Asia (the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Taiwan) as a part of Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rhythm Road Abroad program, working in the world's most war-torn countries to promote reconciliation and rehabilitation to those regions.[7] Blackman was founding director of Freestyle Union, a cipher workshop which uses a free styling as a tool to promote social responsibility, was awarded two prestigious fellowships. Blackman served as a fellow with the Echoing Green Foundation and as a fellow with the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) through which she launched Rhyme Like A Girl formerly known as ADI. A hip hop theater pioneer, she founded the now defunct Hip Hop Arts Movement (HHAM) while at Howard University in 1992. She has featured in the Hip Hop Theater Festival and she co-authored Hip Hop Nightmares of Jujube Brown with Psalmayene 24 as an ACT-Co presentation at ARENA Stage in Washington, DC. She is also a member of the Spoken Word Committee of the New York Chapter of the Recording Academy.[6] Blackman has performed alongside Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Guru, The Roots, Wu Tang, the Lilith Fair, Def Poetry.[4] She performed in a host of venues including the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and at Lincoln Center in New York. In 2009, Blackman spoke at the Pio Manzu International Conference in Rimini, Italy, and in 2010 facilitated a groundbreaking artist residency at Jefferson Arts Center with girls from Liberia, Sudan, Somalia and the U.S., spoke at Harvard University as a part of Bakari Kitwana's Rap Sessions Series collaborated on and performed a song along with Azerbaijani rap group Dayirman, dedicated to victims of Khojaly Massacre[8][9] An interview with emcee Toni Blackman is featured in a scholarly article about girls and "bad bitches" in hip-hop online video culture written by ethnomusicologist and social media scholar Kyra Gaunt in the Journal of Popular Music Studies (2015).[10] Music
References1. ^{{ cite web |url=http://www.powerhousebooks.com/press/lincolncenter.html |title=powerhouse books announcement |accessdate=December 15, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20120909004808/http://www.powerhousebooks.com/press/lincolncenter.html |archivedate=September 9, 2012 |df=mdy-all }} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Blackman, Toni}}2. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://www.jeffcenter.org/blackman|title=Freestyle Cipher Workshop w/ Toni Blackman {{!}} Jefferson Center|website=www.jeffcenter.org|access-date=2016-08-24}} 3. ^MC & Host Toni Blackman {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20120909004808/http://www.powerhousebooks.com/press/lincolncenter.html |date=September 9, 2012 }} 4. ^1 US Department of State. Toni Blackman: First Hip-Hop Envoy {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305200317/http://exchanges.state.gov/cultural/envoy/blackman.html |date=March 5, 2010 }} 5. ^Africa Resource. Toni Blackman: Rap Lyricist, Vocalist and Writer 6. ^1 Toni Blackman. About 7. ^Washington Art. IT'S YOUR MUG ANNIVERSARY ISSUE. Toni Blackman 8. ^{{cite news | url= http://www.today.az/news/society/62448.html | title= Azerbaijan presented a clip dedicated to Khojaly Genocide | publisher= Today.az | author = | date=February 24, 2010 | accessdate=February 24, 2010}} 9. ^{{cite news | url= http://www.news.az/articles/9941 | title= US singer Toni Blackman presents her music video on Khojaly tragedy | publisher= News.az | author = | date=February 24, 2010 | accessdate=February 24, 2010}} 10. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pXlYCwAAQBAJ|title=The Hip Hop & Obama Reader|last=Gaunt|first=Kyra D.|last2=|first2=|date=2015-01-01|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=|isbn=9780199341818|editor-last=Gosa|editor-first=Travis|location=|pages=207 ff.|language=en|chapter=YouTube, Bad Bitches, and a M.I.C. (Mom-in-Chief): On the Digital Seduction of Black Girls in Participatory Hip-hop Spaces|editor-last2=Nielson|editor-first2=Erik|via=}} 11. ^1 2 3 {{Cite web|url=https://soundcloud.com/missblackman1|title=Toni Blackman Audio and Music|website=SoundCloud|language=en|access-date=2019-02-14}} 13 : African-American poets|American poets|American female rappers|African-American female rappers|American women poets|English-language poets|Hip hop activists|Living people|Social entrepreneurs|West Coast hip hop musicians|21st-century American rappers|21st-century women musicians|Year of birth missing (living people) |
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