A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop
Treating hip-hop like sacred scripture, lenny duncan traces its history, the artists, their lyrics, and the cultural context to tell the story of Black liberation in this country, following the bloody trail from the end of the Civil Rights Era to the day George Floyd was sacrificed on the streets of America. Includes striking illustrations.
In this present age, aspiring performers, musical artists, and singers of all kinds engage with hip hop and hip-hop stylizations. Turn on the radio today and you will hear music from the likes of Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, and Billie Eilish-songs you might place into the generalized category of "pop singers." However, many top 40 pop tunes of today ......
In this present age, aspiring performers, musical artists, and singers of all kinds engage with hip hop and hip-hop stylizations. Turn on the radio today and you will hear music from the likes of Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, and Billie Eilish-songs you might place into the generalized category of "pop singers." However, many top 40 pop tunes of today ......
The Griot Tradition as Remixed through Hip Hop: Straight Outta Africa analyzes how Hip Hop, when seen through the lens of African connection, can be appreciated for its regenerative and connective power to create relationships between people both nationally and internationally.
Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape
In "This Is America": Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape, Katie Rios argues that prominent American artists and musicians build encoded gestures of resistance into their works and challenge the status quo. These artists offer both an interpretation and a critique of what "This Is America" means. Using Childish Gambino's ......
An Exploration of Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone World
This edited volume presents an overview of the emergence and development of hip-hop culture in France, French Caribbean, Canada, and Francophone Africa from its origins until today. Contributors discuss the artists' interactions with media arts, social media, literature, race, political landscapes, as well as hip-hop based education.
Unearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop Hip Hop Heresies centers New York City as a space where vibrant queer, Black, and hip hop worlds collide and bond in dance clubs, schools, roller rinks, basketball courts, subways, and movie houses. Using this cultural nexus as the stage, Shante Paradigm Smalls attends to the ways that hip hop ......
Unearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop Hip Hop Heresies centers New York City as a space where vibrant queer, Black, and hip hop worlds collide and bond in dance clubs, schools, roller rinks, basketball courts, subways, and movie houses. Using this cultural nexus as the stage, Shante Paradigm Smalls attends to the ways that hip hop ......
"The author defends the philosophical value of underground hip-hop through illustrating how the culture significantly contributes to debates in multiple academic fields. She also examines the exclusion of hip-hop from discourses on knowledge, racism, genocide and trauma as a reflection of the neoliberal sensibility that hip-hop exposes and ......
