Hip hop's amnesia : from blues and the black women's club movement to rap and the hip hop movement / Reiland Rabaka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabaka, Reiland, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--History and criticism.

Rap (Music).

Hip-hop--United States.

Hip-hop.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxx, 354 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2012]

Summary:

What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the spirituals, classic blues, ragtime, classic jazz, and bebop? What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the Black Women's Club Movement, New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Hipster Movement, and Black Muslim Movement? How did black popular music and black popular culture between 1900 and the 1950s influence white youth culture, especially the Lost Generation and the Beat Generation, in ways that mirror rap music and hip hop culture's influence on contemporary white youth music, culture, and politics? In Hip Hop's Amnesia, Reiland Rabaka answers these questions by rescuing and reclaiming the often-overlooked early twentieth-century origins and evolution of rap music and hip hop culture. Ultimately, Hip Hop's Amnesia is a study about aesthetics and politics, music and social movements, as well as the ways in which African Americans' unique history, culture, and struggle have consistently led them to create music that has served as the soundtracks for their sociopolitical aspirations and frustrations, their sociopolitical organizations and nationally networked movements. Book jacket.

Contents:

African American movement music : on hip hop's "partial or total loss of memory" surrounding classical black popular music and classical black popular movements

"Back to the old school!" : on the "old school" origins and evolution of rap music, hip hop culture, and the hip hop movement

"Lifting as we climb!" : classic blues queens and the black women's club movement, neo-soul sistas and the hip hop women's movement

Jazzmatazz : from classic jazz and bebop to jazz rap and hip hop

"If we must die!" : the new Negro movement, the Harlem renaissance, and the homosexual hip hop movement

The hip hop movement : from merely rap music to a major multi-issue socio-political movement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739174913

0739174916

9780739174920

0739174924

9780739174937

0739174932

OCLC:

772611107