Hip-Hop As Philosophical Text and Testimony - Can I Get a Witness?

Informationen zum Autor By Lissa Skitolsky Klappentext The author defends the philosophical value of underground hip-hop through illustrating how the culture significantly contributes to debates in multiple academic fields. She also examines the exclusion of hip-hop from discourses on knowledge, racism, genocide and trauma as a reflection of the neoliberal sensibility that hip-hop exposes and opposes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop Chapter One: Know What I'm Sayin? Chapter Two: Can I Get a Witness? Chapter Three: Claimin I'm a Criminal Chapter Four: But You Don't Hear Me Tho Chapter Five: You Feel Me? Chapter Six: Fuck Tha Police Conclusion: The Aesthetic Politics of Underground Hip-Hop Playlist by Chapter Discography

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• Authors: Lissa Skitolsky
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2022
• EAN: 9781498566728
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6672-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Philosophy of Race
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, Rap and Hip Hop, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, Rap & Hip-Hop, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social and cultural history, Popular Music, Hip hop;Music Studies;Race Studies;Rap music;Trauma theory