ISBN:
9781479808212
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (216 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Postmillennial Pop 32
Series Statement:
Postmillennial Pop
DDC:
111/.8508996073
Keywords:
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop
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Aesthetics, Black
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African American arts History
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Gay culture History
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Hip-hop History
Abstract:
Unearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hopHip 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, Shanté Paradigm Smalls attends to the ways that hip hop cultural production in New York City from the 1970s through the early twenty-first century produced film, visual art, and music that offer queer articulations of race, gender, and sexuality.To illustrate New York City as a place of experimental aesthetic collaboration, Smalls brings four cultural moments to the forefront: the life and work of the gay Chinese American visual and graffiti artist Martin Wong, who brokered the relationship between New York City graffiti artists and gallery and museum spaces; the Brooklyn-based rapper-singer-writer-producer Jean Grae, one of the most prolific and underrated emcees of the last two decades; the iconic 1980s film The Last Dragon, which exemplifies the experimental and queer Black masculinity possible in early formal hip hop culture; and finally queer- and trans-identified hip hop artists and groups like BQE, Deepdickollective, and Hanifah Walidah, and the documentary Pick Up the Mic.Hip Hop Heresies transforms the landscape of hip hop scholarship, Black studies, and queer studies by bringing together these fields through the hermeneutic of aesthetics. Providing a guidepost for future scholarship on queer, trans, and feminist hip hop studies, Hip Hop Heresies takes seriously the work that New York City hip hop cultural production has done and will do, and advocates a form of hip hop that eschews authenticity in favor of performativity, bricolage, and pastiche
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
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In English
DOI:
10.18574/nyu/9781479808212
URL:
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