Blog Post #15 - Bell Hooks
In this modern day, it’s hard to find people who are interested in artists who use foreign languages in their songs. This is quite often caused by the listeners finding the lyrics worthless or meaningless especially if the song switches between different languages. Bell Hooks, an African-American author and social critic stated in her essay “The Language of Power”: “I suggest that we may learn from spaces of silence as well as spaces of speech, that in the patient act of listening to another tongue we may subvert that culture of capitalist frenzy and consumption that demands all desire must be satisfied immediately, or we may disrupt that cultural imperialism that suggests one is worthy of being heard only if one speaks in standard English…” After looking into this question, I have wondered how a non-English artist can successfully integrate themselves into an international community whilst still partially using their mother tongue in their music. To answer the question, I will us...