Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, "inherited" from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the aforementioned cultural aesthetic traditions with those of hip hop culture, all the while critically exploring the origins and evolution of black popular culture from antebellum America through to "Obama's America," Hip Hop's Inheritance demonstrates that the Hip Hop generation is not the first…mehr
Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, "inherited" from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the aforementioned cultural aesthetic traditions with those of hip hop culture, all the while critically exploring the origins and evolution of black popular culture from antebellum America through to "Obama's America," Hip Hop's Inheritance demonstrates that the Hip Hop generation is not the first generation of young black folk preoccupied with spirituality and sexuality, race and religion, entertainment and athletics, or ghetto culture and bourgeois culture.
Reiland Rabaka is an associate professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is also an affiliate professor in the Women and Gender Studies Program and a Research Fellow at the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA). He is the author of several books, including: Du Bois's Dialectics (2008); Africana Critical Theory (2009); Forms of Fanonism (2010); and, Against Epistemic Apartheid (2010). He is also the recipient of the Cheikh Anta Diop Distinguished Career Award.
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Chapter 1 Preface and Acknowledgments: Of the Black Souls Who Sang Neo-Sorrow Songs at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century Chapter 2 Chapter 1: "It's Bigger Than Hip Hop!": Toward a Critical Theory of Hip Hop Culture and Contemporary Society Chapter 3 Chapter 2: "Civil Rights by Copyright" (Da ReMix!): From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Generation Chapter 4 Chapter 3: "Say It Loud! - I'm Black and I'm Proud!": From the Black Arts Movement and Blaxploitation Films to the Conscious and Commercial Rap of the Hip Hop Generation Chapter 5 Chapter 4: "The Personal Is Political!" (Da Hip Hop Feminist ReMix): From the Black Women's Liberation and Feminist Art Movements to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Is Hip Hop Dead? or, At the Very Least, Dying?: On the Pitfalls of Postmodernism, the Riddles of Contemporary Rap Music,and the Continuing Conundrums of Hip Hop Culture
Chapter 1 Preface and Acknowledgments: Of the Black Souls Who Sang Neo-Sorrow Songs at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century Chapter 2 Chapter 1: "It's Bigger Than Hip Hop!": Toward a Critical Theory of Hip Hop Culture and Contemporary Society Chapter 3 Chapter 2: "Civil Rights by Copyright" (Da ReMix!): From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Generation Chapter 4 Chapter 3: "Say It Loud! - I'm Black and I'm Proud!": From the Black Arts Movement and Blaxploitation Films to the Conscious and Commercial Rap of the Hip Hop Generation Chapter 5 Chapter 4: "The Personal Is Political!" (Da Hip Hop Feminist ReMix): From the Black Women's Liberation and Feminist Art Movements to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Is Hip Hop Dead? or, At the Very Least, Dying?: On the Pitfalls of Postmodernism, the Riddles of Contemporary Rap Music,and the Continuing Conundrums of Hip Hop Culture
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