Spectacular Vernaculars. Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism

Par : Russell A. Potter
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  • Nombre de pages197
  • PrésentationBroché
  • FormatGrand Format
  • Poids0.29 kg
  • Dimensions15,3 cm × 19,8 cm × 1,4 cm
  • ISBN0-7914-2626-2
  • EAN9780791426265
  • Date de parution01/01/1995
  • CollectionSuny Series in Postmodern Cult
  • ÉditeurSUNY Press

Résumé

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 postmodem practice, with implications both for theories of postmodernism and cultural studies as a whole.
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 postmodem practice, with implications both for theories of postmodernism and cultural studies as a whole.