Hip Hop's Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement

Hip Hop's Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement
ISBN-10
0739164821
ISBN-13
9780739164822
Category
Music
Pages
302
Language
English
Published
2011-03-31
Publisher
Lexington Books
Author
Reiland Rabaka

Description

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.

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