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Musical Personalities

Friday, July 20, 2007

The Atlanta rapper T.I. is the latest artist to explore music using multiple personas. We ask New York Times pop music critic Kelefa Sanneh and Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein, a psychologist specializing in Dissociative Identity Disorder, why multiple personalities are so common among stars and how they affect their music.

Kelefa Sanneh's NY Times article on T.I.


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  • [1] becca July 20, 2007 - 02:23PM

    in your discussion of tori amos you seem to be forgetting that she has adopted several personalities before (see "strange little girls,")
  • [2] Condoleeza Rice from Washington, DC July 20, 2007 - 03:33PM

    Singers adopting different personas was common in Weimar Cabaret as well. It underlined the subversive aspects of their music.

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