ISBN:
9781137395825
,
9781137395832
Language:
English
Pages:
292 S.
Edition:
1. ed.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Cultural Impact of Kanye West
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Communication
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Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Through rap and hip hop, entertainers have provided a voice questioning and challenging the sanctioned view of society. Examining the moral and social implications of Kanye West's art in the context of Western civilization's preconceived ideas, the contributors consider how West both challenges religious and moral norms and propagates them
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface: The Cultural Impact of Kanye West ; Acknowledgments; Part I Revisiting the Pharmakon: Artistic Gifts / Human Complexities; Chapter 1 Now I Ain't Saying He's a Crate Digger: Kanye West, "Community Theaters" and the Soul Archive; Chapter 2 Kanye West: Asterisk Genius?; Chapter 3 Afrofuturism: The Digital Turn and the Visual Art of Kanye West; Chapter 4 You Got Kanyed: Seen but Not Heard; Chapter 5 An Examination of Kanye West's Higher Education Trilogy; Part II Unpacking Hetero-normativity and Complicating Race and Gender
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6 "By Any Means Necessary": Kanye West and the Hypermasculine ConstructChapter 7 Kanye West's Sonic [Hip-hop] Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 8 "Hard to Get Straight"; Chapter 9 You Can't Stand the Nigger I See!: Kanye West's Analysis of Anti-Black Death; Part III Theorizing the Aesthetic, the Political, and the Existential; Chapter 10 When Apollo and Dionysus Clash: A Nietzschean Perspective on the Work of Kanye West; Chapter 11 God of the New Slaves or Slave to the Ideas of Religion and God?*; Chapter 12 Trimalchio from Chicago*: Flashing Lights and The Great Kanye in West Egg
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 13 Confidently (Non)cognizant of Neoliberalism: Kanye West and the Interruption of Taylor SwiftChapter 14 Kanye Omari West: Visions of Modernity; References; Notes on Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1057/9781137395825
URL:
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