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Author: Zachary Scribe
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2007-09-01
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0615153496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays, interviews, and other prose works revolving around the North American underground and independent rap scene and the author's experiences with it, this book offers appreciation for those already steeped in the genre and provides outsiders a glimpse into a fertile subculture.
Author: Christopher Vito
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-02-08
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 3030024814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtilizing a mixed-methods approach, this book uncovers the historical trajectory of U.S. independent hip-hop in the post-golden era, seeking to understand its complex relationship to mainstream hip-hop culture and U.S. culture more generally. Christopher Vito analyzes the lyrics of indie hip-hop albums from 2000-2013 to uncover the dominant ideologies of independent artists regarding race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and social change. These analyses inform interviews with members of the indie hip-hop community to explore the meanings that they associate with the culture today, how technological and media changes impact the boundaries between independent and major, and whether and how this shapes their engagement with oppositional consciousness. Ultimately, this book aims to understand the complex and contradictory cultural politics of independent hip-hop in the contemporary age.
Author: Zachary David Funk
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 106
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jon Ivan Gill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-28
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1351391321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderground rap is largely a subversive, grassroots, and revolutionary movement in underground hip-hop, tending to privilege creative freedom as well as progressive and liberating thoughts and actions. This book contends that many practitioners of underground rap have absorbed religious traditions and ideas, and implement, critique, or abandon them in their writings. This in turn creates processural mutations of God that coincide with and speak to the particular context from which they originate. Utilising the work of scholars like Monica Miller and Alfred North Whitehead, Gill uses a secular religious methodology to put forward an aesthetic philosophy of religion for the rap portion of underground hip-hop. Drawing from Whiteheadian process thought, a theopoetic argument is made. Namely, that it is not simply the case that is God the "poet of the world", but rather rap can, in fact, be the poet (creator) of its own form of quasi-religion. This is a unique look at the religious workings and implications of underground rap and hip hop. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Hip-Hop Studies and Process Philosophy and Theology.
Author: Anthony Kwame Harrison
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2009-07-09
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1439900620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRace and authenticity in America, explored through the Bay Area's multiracial underground hip hop scene.
Author: Matthew Oware
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-07-11
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 331990454X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat do millennial rappers in the United States say in their music? This timely and compelling book answers this question by decoding the lyrics of over 700 songs from contemporary rap artists. Using innovative research techniques, Matthew Oware reveals how emcees perpetuate and challenge gendered and racialized constructions of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality. Male and female artists litter their rhymes with misogynistic and violent imagery. However, men also express a full range of emotions, from arrogance to vulnerability, conveying a more complex manhood than previously acknowledged. Women emphatically state their desires while embracing a more feminist approach. Even LGBTQ artists stake their claim and express their sexuality without fear. Finally, in the age of Black Lives Matter and the presidency of Donald J. Trump, emcees forcefully politicize their music. Although complicated and contradictory in many ways, rap remains a powerful medium for social commentary.
Author: Hashim A. Shomari
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maurice Ramos
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1984553399
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Author: David Arditi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 633
ISBN-13: 3031640136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Braxton Peterson
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1611486505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Media Res is a manifold collection that reflects the intersectional qualities of university programming in the twenty-first century. Taking race, gender, and popular culture as its central thematic subjects, the volume collects academic essays, speeches, poems, and creative works that critically engage a wide range of issues, including American imperialism, racial and gender discrimination, the globalization of culture, and the limitations of our new multimedia world. This diverse assortment of works by scholars, activists, and artists models the complex ways that we must engage university students, faculty, staff, and administration in a moment where so many of us are confounded by the “in medias res” nature of our interface with the world in the current moment. Featuring contributions from Imani Perry, Michael Eric Dyson, Suheir Hammad, John Jennings, and Adam Mansbach, In Media Res is a primer for academic inquiry into popular culture; American studies; critical media literacy; women, gender, and sexuality studies; and Africana studies.
