Three Works on the Politics and Possibilities of Hip-Hop Now
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6141536 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Nicholas Gamso (autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2012 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 345-357 |
| Data de publicação | 2012-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Cultural Politics an International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1743-2197 • E-ISSN: 1751-7435 |
| Editora | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/17432197-1575201 |
| OpenAlex | W2108844193 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 7 |
This essay considers the political efficacy of hip-hop, as genre and as lifestyle, three decades after it emerged from the South Bronx and as its artists and cultural critics variously mourn, endure, and embrace its institutionalization. I look at three recent critical works on hip-hop: Paul Gilroy's 2011 Darker than Blue, which sees in the genre empty posturing and codes of conspicuous consumption; the 2012 edition of Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal's anthology That's the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader, which with a wide array of essays and interviews seeks to establish the contours of a discipline that's lost its novelty but continues to evolve; and Nitasha Tamar Sharma's 2010 ethnography Hip Hop Desis, which explores hip-hop culture among South Asian American youths who found in connoisseurship, collaboration, and performance a language for negotiating race and asserting identity. In particular, this essay takes up a charge issued by Gilroy in several works, that reductive racial politics are promoted by black Atlantic popular culture and by members of the academy. I argue on the contrary that the proliferation of hip-hop's technologies, language, and ethic of collaboration remains a viable political tool and meaningful artistic gesture—one that in overlooked contexts endorses Gilroy's views and engages in a rigorous critique of race
Aesthetics · Art · Identity politics · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Race, History, and American Society
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |