- Paperback: 302 pages
- Publisher: Lexington Books (March 31, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0739164813
- ISBN-13: 978-0739164815
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 (and white) folk preoccupied with spirituality and
sexuality, race and religion, entertainment and athletics, or ghetto
culture and bourgeois culture. Taking interdisciplinarity and
intersectionality seriously, Hip Hop's Inheritance
employs the epistemologies and methodologies from a wide range of
academic and organic intellectual/activist communities in its efforts to
advance an intellectual history and critical theory of hip hop culture.
Drawing from academic and organic intellectual/activist communities as
diverse as African American studies and women's studies, postcolonial
studies and sexuality studies, history and philosophy, politics and
economics, and sociology and ethnomusicology, Hip Hop's Inheritance
calls into question one-dimensional and monodisciplinary
interpretations or, rather, misinterpretations, of a multidimensional
and multivalent form of popular culture that has increasingly come to
include cultural criticism, social commentary, and political analysis.
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