The Hip Hop & Obama Reader explores the political, social, and cultural significance of hip hop in the age of Obama. By exploring the contentious and complex interactions between popular culture and contemporary politics, it raises questions about hip hop's changing identity formations, its shifting claims to authenticity, and the extent to which it can serve as a vehicle for social and political change in the age of Obama and beyond.
The Hip Hop & Obama Reader explores the political, social, and cultural significance of hip hop in the age of Obama. By exploring the contentious and complex interactions between popular culture and contemporary politics, it raises questions about hip hop's changing identity formations, its shifting claims to authenticity, and the extent to which it can serve as a vehicle for social and political change in the age of Obama and beyond.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Travis L. Gosa is Assistant Professor of Social Science at Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center. He holds faculty appointments in Education and American Studies, and is affiliated with the Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality. Since 2008, he has served on the advisory board of Cornell's Hip Hop Collection, the largest archive on early hip hop culture in the United States. He teaches courses on hip hop culture, educational inequality, and African American families. His most recent work has been published with peer-reviewed journals Poetics, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Teacher's College Record, Popular Music and Society, and the Journal of American Culture. He also writes regularly for popular outlets, including The Root, FoxNews, Ebony, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Erik Nielson is Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses on African American literature, hip hop culture, and advanced writing. He received his M.A. in English from University College London and his Ph.D., also in English, from the University of Sheffield. He has lectured on African American literature and hip hop culture at major conferences in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, and he has published articles in several peer reviewed journals, including African American Review, MELUS, Race and Justice, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Journal of Popular Music Studies. He also writes regularly for popular outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and NPR and has been interviewed by a wide range of national media organizations. He is currently at work on his manuscript, Under Surveillance: Policing the Resistance in Hip Hop, for Manchester University Press.
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* Preface * About the Contributors * Foreword Tricia Rose, Brown University * Introduction: The State of Hip Hop in the Age of Obama * Erik Nielson, University of Richmond * Travis L. Gosa, Cornell University * PART I: MOVE THE CROWD: HIP HOP POLITICS IN THE U.S. AND ABROAD * 1. Message from the Grassroots: Hip Hop Activism, Millennials, and the Race for the White House * Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut * 2. It's Bigger Than Barack: Hip Hop Political Organizing, 2004-2013 * Elizabeth Méndez Berry, New York University * Bakari Kitwana, Author and CEO, Rap Sessions * 3. "There Are No Saviors": Hip Hop and Community Activism in the Obama Era * Kevin Powell, Author and Activist * 4. "Obama Nation": Hip Hop and Global Protest * Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City * University of New York * 5. "Record! I am Arab": Paranoid Arab Boys, Global Cyphers, and Hip Hop Nationalism * Torie Rose DeGhett, Columbia University * PART II: CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN? THE CONTESTED DISCOURSE OF OBAMA and HIP HOP * 6. Obama, Hip Hop, African American History, and "Historical Revivalism" * Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State University * 7. "Change That Wouldn't Fill a Homeless Man's Cup Up": Filipino-American Political Hip Hop and Community Organizing in the Age of Obama * Anthony Kwame Harrison, Virginia Tech * 8. Obama/Time: The President in the Hip-Hop Nation * Murray Forman, Northeastern University * 9. One Day It Will All Make Sense: Obama, Politics and Common Sense * Charlie Braxton, Author and Activist * 10. "New Slaves": The Soul of Hip-Hop Sold to Da Massah in the Age of Obama * Raphael Heaggans, Niagara University * PART III: REPRESENT: GENDER AND LANGUAGE IN THE OBAMA ERA * 11. YouTube and Bad Bitches: Hip Hop's Seduction Of Girls and The Distortion Of Participatory Culture * Kyra D. Gaunt, City University of New York * 12. A Performative Account of Black Girlhood * Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * 13. The King's English: Obama, Jay Z, and the Science of Code Switching * Michael P. Jeffries, Wellesley College * 14. My President is Black: Speech Act Theory and Presidential Allusions in the Lyrics of Rap Music * James Peterson and Cynthia Estremera, Lehigh University * Afterword: When Will Black Lives Matter? Neoliberalism, Democracy, and the Queering of American Activism in the Post-Obama Era * Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago * Subject Index
* Preface * About the Contributors * Foreword Tricia Rose, Brown University * Introduction: The State of Hip Hop in the Age of Obama * Erik Nielson, University of Richmond * Travis L. Gosa, Cornell University * PART I: MOVE THE CROWD: HIP HOP POLITICS IN THE U.S. AND ABROAD * 1. Message from the Grassroots: Hip Hop Activism, Millennials, and the Race for the White House * Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut * 2. It's Bigger Than Barack: Hip Hop Political Organizing, 2004-2013 * Elizabeth Méndez Berry, New York University * Bakari Kitwana, Author and CEO, Rap Sessions * 3. "There Are No Saviors": Hip Hop and Community Activism in the Obama Era * Kevin Powell, Author and Activist * 4. "Obama Nation": Hip Hop and Global Protest * Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City * University of New York * 5. "Record! I am Arab": Paranoid Arab Boys, Global Cyphers, and Hip Hop Nationalism * Torie Rose DeGhett, Columbia University * PART II: CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN? THE CONTESTED DISCOURSE OF OBAMA and HIP HOP * 6. Obama, Hip Hop, African American History, and "Historical Revivalism" * Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State University * 7. "Change That Wouldn't Fill a Homeless Man's Cup Up": Filipino-American Political Hip Hop and Community Organizing in the Age of Obama * Anthony Kwame Harrison, Virginia Tech * 8. Obama/Time: The President in the Hip-Hop Nation * Murray Forman, Northeastern University * 9. One Day It Will All Make Sense: Obama, Politics and Common Sense * Charlie Braxton, Author and Activist * 10. "New Slaves": The Soul of Hip-Hop Sold to Da Massah in the Age of Obama * Raphael Heaggans, Niagara University * PART III: REPRESENT: GENDER AND LANGUAGE IN THE OBAMA ERA * 11. YouTube and Bad Bitches: Hip Hop's Seduction Of Girls and The Distortion Of Participatory Culture * Kyra D. Gaunt, City University of New York * 12. A Performative Account of Black Girlhood * Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * 13. The King's English: Obama, Jay Z, and the Science of Code Switching * Michael P. Jeffries, Wellesley College * 14. My President is Black: Speech Act Theory and Presidential Allusions in the Lyrics of Rap Music * James Peterson and Cynthia Estremera, Lehigh University * Afterword: When Will Black Lives Matter? Neoliberalism, Democracy, and the Queering of American Activism in the Post-Obama Era * Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago * Subject Index
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