Russell A. Potter

Spectacular Vernaculars (eBook, PDF)

Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism

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Produktbeschreibung

Spectacular Vernaculars examines hip-hop's cultural rebellion in terms of its specific implications for postmodern theory and practice, using the politics of reception as its primary rhetorical ground. Hip-hop culture in general, and rap music in particular, present model sites for such an inquiry, since they enact both postmodern modes of production-the appropriation of tropes, technologies, and material culture-and a potential means of resistance to the commodification of cultural forms under late capitalism. By paying specific attention to the historical and cultural context of hip-hop as a black artform and locating its practice of resistance in terms of a postmodernist reading of consumer culture, this book offers a complex reading of hip-hop as a postmodern practice, with implications both for theories of postmodernism and cultural studies as a whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438416397
• Artikelnr.: 60501771

Autorenporträt

Russell A. Potter is Assistant Professor of English at Colby College. He hosts a weekly radio program, Roots-n-Rap, in Waterville, Maine.