Hip Hop's Inheritance : From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement.

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. Bycomparing and contrasting the major m...

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Main Author: Rabaka, Reiland, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary: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. Bycomparing 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'sAmerica," Hip Hop's Inheritance demonstrates that the hip hop generation is not the first generat.
Physical Description:1 online resource (266 pages)
ISBN:9780739164822
0739164821
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.