Hip Hop Movement (eBook)

From R&B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation

Reiland Rabaka (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
516 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8117-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Connecting classic rhythm & blues and rock & roll to the Civil Rights Movement, and classic soul and funk to the Black Power Movement, The Hip Hop Movement critically explores what each of these musics and movements contributed to rap, neo-soul, hip hop culture, and the broader Hip Hop Movement.

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The Hip Hop Movement offers a critical theory and alternative history of rap music and hip hop culture by examining their roots in the popular musics and popular cultures of the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement. Connecting classic rhythm & blues and rock & roll to the Civil Rights Movement, and classic soul and funk to the Black Power Movement, The Hip Hop Movement explores what each of these musics and movements contributed to rap, neo-soul, hip hop culture, and the broader Hip Hop Movement. Ultimately, this book's remixes (as opposed to chapters) reveal that black popular music and black popular culture have always been more than merely ';popular music' and ';popular culture' in the conventional sense and reflect a broader social, political, and cultural movement. With this in mind, sociologist and musicologist Reiland Rabaka critically reinterprets rap and neo-soul as popular expressions of the politics, social visions, and cultural values of a contemporary multi-issue movement: the Hip Hop Movement.Rabaka argues that rap music, hip hop culture, and the Hip Hop Movement are as deserving of critical scholarly inquiry as previous black popular musics, such as the spirituals, blues, ragtime, jazz, rhythm & blues, rock & roll, soul, and funk, and previous black popular movements, such as the Black Women's Club Movement, New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement, Black Arts Movement, and Black Women's Liberation Movement. This volume, equal parts alternative history of hip hop and critical theory of hip hop, challenges those scholars, critics, and fans of hip hop who lopsidedly over-focus on commercial rap, pop rap, and gangsta rap while failing to acknowledge that there are more than three dozen genres of rap music and many other socially and politically progressive forms of hip hop culture beyond DJing, MCing, rapping, beat-making, break-dancing, and graffiti-writing.

Autor

Reiland Rabaka is associate professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the department of ethnic studies and the humanities program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is also an affiliate professor in the women and gender studies program and a research fellow at the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA). He is the author of eleven books, including Hip Hop’s Inheritance; Hip Hop’s Amnesia; and The Neo-Soul Movement: From Classic Soul to Hip Hop Soul. He is also the recipient of the Cheikh Anta Diop Distinguished Career Award.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Lift Every Voice and Sing and RapPart I: The Soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1965Remix 1: Rhythm & Blues: From Classic Rhythm & Blues to Rap’s Beats & RhymesRemix 2: Rock & Roll: From Classic Rock & Roll to Rock RapPart II: The Soundtracks of the Black Power Movement, 1965-1980Remix 3: Soul: From Classic Soul to Neo-SoulRemix 4: Funk: From P-Funk to G-FunkPart III: The Soundtracks & Social Visions of the Hip Hop Movement, 1980-PresentRemix 5: The Hip Hop Movement: From Black Popular Music & Black Popular Culture to a Black Popular Movement

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: African American History • African American Studies • Africana Studies • American History • American Studies • Black Popular Culture • Black Popular Music • Black Power Movement • Civil Rights Movement • critical race theory • critical studies • Cultural Studies • Ethnic Studies • Funk • Gender Studies • Hip hop culture • musicology • popular culture • popular music • Postcolonial • race and ethnicity • Rap • Rhythm and Blues • Rock and Roll • Sexuality Studies • Soul • Subaltern Studies • women's studies
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8117-3 / 0739181173
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8117-1 / 9780739181171