This Is America - Race, Gender, and Politics in Americas Musical Landscape

In "This is America," Katie Rios considers current American artists who build encoded gestures of resistance into their works. These gestures recur across images, live performances, and videos, becoming recognizable acts of resistance leveled at injustices based on a number of categories, including race, gender, class, religion, and politics.

List of contents

Chapter 1: "We're Drowning in Our Own Stories": Laurie Anderson's Call to Artists and Her Performance Art as a Commentary on Current American Democracy
Chapter 2: "At the Intersection' of Racism and Sexism": The Encoded Resistance and Social Activism of Beyoncé, Rhiannon Giddens, and Janelle Monáe
Chapter 3: "We the People"? Hip Hop As Resistance in the Trump Era
Chapter 4: '"Look Around", "History Is Happening": Heterogenous Topics in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton

About the author

By Katie Rios

Product details

• Authors: Katie Rios
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781793619167
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-916-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Music; Critical Perspectives on Music and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; USA, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Rap and Hip Hop, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Rap & Hip-Hop, United States of America, USA, Theory of music & musicology, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology