Back (Part 1) Critical Review

"'Inglan, nice up!': black music, autonomy, and the cultural intermezzo" takes the reader through various aspects of a certain musical type and scene heavily tied to the black diaspora. Back looks at the Afro-Caribbean culture that was creating music in post-war, urban Britain and how black communities began a tradition of leading sound systems. These sounds were composed of a set that required multiple people to run the performance, some working synthesizers and records and some playing the role of MC or mike chanter. Back stresses the need for originality and the confrontations between different styles, especially as hip hop and rap came on to the scene in the 1980s. As in many genres, debates sprung up between different styles - faster rapping was disliked at first, slackness was early but considered crude, political MCing had its place, and dealing with issues of gender and sexuality all created different aspects of the style and chant.

Question: Back quotes hooks in this chapter as he argues that some of the homophobia and misogyny in rap and Afro-Caribbean musical styles is an expression of black subjugation by "more powerful, less visible forces of patriarchal gangsterism." I am confused by this argument. Is he saying that black men create their own patriarchy in music since they are lower in the white capitalism patriarchy? Is it that since this community feels subjugated, the automatic response is to do it to someone else, in this case women?