Author: James Barber
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839470528
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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Although hip hop is now a well-established global music genre and cultural form, its history and current impact have not yet been sufficiently studied. The interdisciplinary contributions to this volume address hip hop's historical and regional struggles for representation of race, gender, generation, place, and language, as well as the tension between authenticity and commercialization. Contributors offer approaches to historicizing hip-hop culture, and present new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools for addressing hip hop's global impact. This volume targets not only scholars and students but also resonates with recent public debates about identity politics and cultural appropriation.
Author: Nicole Hodges Persley
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472055119
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Explores expressions of Blackness in Hip-Hop performance by non-African American artists
Author: Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822375257
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaetón, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging. Stars such as Tego Calderón criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream's tendency to praise black culture but neglecting and marginalizing the island's black population, while Ivy Queen, the genre's most visible woman, disrupts the associations between whiteness and respectability that support official discourses of racial democracy. From censorship campaigns on the island that sought to devalue reggaetón, to its subsequent mass marketing to U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau traces reggaetón's origins and its transformation from the music of San Juan's slums into a global pop phenomenon. Reggaetón, she demonstrates, provides a language to speak about the black presence in Puerto Rico and a way to build links between the island and the African diaspora.
Author: Philip C. Kolin
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786457546
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Suzan-Lori Parks has received international recognition for her provocative and influential works. Her plays capture the nightmares of African Americans endangered by a white establishment determined to erase their history and eradicate their dreams. A dozen essays address Parks's plays, screenplays and novel. Additionally, this book includes two original interviews (one with Parks and another with her long-time director Liz Diamond) and a production chronology of her plays.
Author: Amy Coddington
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520417356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop examines the programming practices at commercial radio stations in the 1980s and early 1990s to uncover how the radio industry facilitated hip hop's introduction into the musical mainstream. Constructed primarily by the Top 40 radio format, the musical mainstream featured mostly white artists for mostly white audiences. With the introduction of hip hop to these programs, the radio industry was fundamentally altered, as stations struggled to incorporate the genre's diverse audience. At the same time, as artists negotiated expanding audiences and industry pressure to make songs fit within the confines of radio formats, the sound of hip hop changed. Drawing from archival research, Amy Coddington shows how the racial structuring of the radio industry influenced the way hip hop was sold to the American public, and how the genre's growing popularity transformed ideas about who constitutes the mainstream. The author gratefully acknowledges the AMS 75 PAYS Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Author: Brian McHale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316505885
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 553
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The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature offers a comprehensive survey of the field, from its emergence in the mid-twentieth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of postmodern writing that helps readers to understand how fiction and poetry, literary criticism, feminist theory, mass media, and the visual and fine arts have characterized the historical development of postmodernism. Covering subjects from the Cold War and countercultures to the Latin American Boom and magic realism, this History traces the genealogy of a literary tradition while remaining grounded in current scholarship. It also presents new critical approaches to postmodern literature that will serve the needs of students and specialists alike. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History will not only engage readers in contemporary debates but also serve as a definitive reference for years to come.
Author: Justin A. Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107037468
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.
Author: Eduardo Navas
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3990435000
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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No detailed description available for "Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling".
Author: William Upski Wimsatt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887128964
Category : Hip-hop
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Through stories, cartoons, interviews, disses, parodies and original research, Bomb the Suburbs challenges the suburban mind-set wherever it is found, in suburbs and corporate headquarters, but also in cities, housing projects and hip-hop itself, debating key questions within the urban black community. Aimed at hip-hop insiders and outsiders alike to elevate hip-hop, pop culture and ourselves to a higher standard of art, ethics, intellect, strategy, adventure and honesty, this humorous, incisive treatise from the author of No More Prisons. With b/w illustrations throughout.
Author: Daniel Banks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780472051328
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This title collects eight works by contemporary artists. The plays deal with compelling issues of our times, including police profiling and brutality, women's empowerment, the commercial exploitation of hip hop, and identity politics.
