Josephine Metcalf, Will Turner

Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player

Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience. Over the past three decades, African Americans have faced a number of new challenges brought about by changes in the political, economic and social structure of America. Furthermore, this vastly changed social landscape has produced a number of resonant pop-cultural trends that have proved to be both innovative and admired on the one hand, and contentious and divisive on the other. Ice-T's iconic and multifarious career maps these shifts. This is the first book that, taken as a whole, looks at a black cultural icon's manipulation of (or manipulation by?) so many different forms simultaneously. The result is a fascinating series of tensions arising from Ice-T's ability to inhabit conflicting pop-cultural roles including: 'hardcore' gangsta rapper and dedicated philanthropist; author of controversial song Cop Killer and network television cop; self-proclaimed 'pimp' and reality television house husband. As the essays in this collection detail, Ice-T's chameleonic public image consistently tests the accepted parameters of black cultural production, and in doing so illuminates the contradictions of a society erroneously dubbed 'post-racial'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 705g
• ISBN-13: 9781472418357
• ISBN-10: 1472418352
• Artikelnr.: 42387478

Autorenporträt

Josephine Metcalf is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull, UK. Will Turner is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Manchester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction "It's got to feel real but not be real" (Ice-T)
Josephine Metcalf
Will Turner; Part 1 Hip-Hop Contexts; Chapter 1 Ice/Age: Experience
Achievement
and Transformations of an OG
Murray Forman; Chapter 2 Ice-T at the Movies: The Hip-Hop Film Cycle and the On-Screen Gangsta in Flux
Keith Corson; Chapter 3 Voices of the Gods: Definition
Diegesis
and Discourse in Ice-T's The Art of Rap
James Braxton Peterson; Part 2 Genre Hustling; Chapter 4 Crossing Police Lines: Body Count and the Politics of Intercultural Miscommunication
Will Turner; Chapter 5 Member of an Elite Squad: Ice-T and the Imagining of "Fin" Tutuola
Mark D. Cunningham; Chapter 6 Ice Loves Coco: Reality TV
Hip-Hop
and the Articulation of Neo-Liberal Family Values
Barry Shanahan; Chapter 7 Writing "on the Rilla" with Ice-T: from Autobiography to Avatar in Kings of Vice
Jonathan Munby; Part 3 Activist
Philanthropist
Entrepreneur; Chapter 8 Gaming the System: Ice-T as Neoliberal Hustler and Entrepreneurial Philanthropist
Greg Dimitriadis
Justin De Senso; Chapter 9 The Peacemaking Producer of LA: Negotiating and Representing Gangs on Reality TV
Josephine Metcalf; Chapter 10 Ice-T's Sense of Redemption and the Gangbanger Autobiography
H. David Brumble; Chapter 11 Getting "A Message Through to the Red
White
and Blue": Ice-T in the Age of Obama
Halifu Osumare; Part 4 Interview; Chapter 12 Living by Your Word: An Interview with Ice-T; afterword Afterword Ice-T's "-ish" and The Power of Street Knowledge
Travis L. Gosa;