Philosophy and Hip-Hop : ruminations on postmodern cultural form / Julius Bailey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bailey, Julius, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Rap (Music).

Rap (Music)--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xxii, 196 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Philosophy and Hip-Hop:Ruminations on Postmodern Cultural Form Opens up the philosophical life force that informs the construction of hip-hop by turning the gaze of the philosopher upon those blind sopts that exist within existing scholarship. Traditional departments of Philosophy will find this book a solid companion in contemporary philsophy or aesthetic theory. Inside these pages is a project that parallels the Themes of existential angst, corporate elitism, social consciousness, male privilege, and masculinity. This book illustrates the abundance of philosophical meaning in the textual and graphic elements of hip-hop, and thus places hip-hop within the philosophical canon. Book jacket.

Contents:

Rumination 1 Of the Beauty and wisdom of Hip-Hop 19

Rumination 2 Firebroands and Battle Plans: Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich / Nietzsche, G W F Hegel Hegel, G W F 45

Rumination 3 Conscious Hip-Hop Versus the Culture Industry 59

Rumination 4 Toward a Philosophy of Hip-Hop Education 71

Rumination 5 Lost in the City and Lost in the Self: Sin and Solipsism in Hip-HOp's Dystopia; St. Augustine, Toni Morrison / Paul Tillich Tillich, Paul 83

Rumination 6 Hip-Hop and International Voices of Revolution: Brazil, Cuba, Ghana, and Egypt 103

Rumination 7 The Artist and the Image: Ervin Goffman, Marshall McLuhan / Roland Barthes Barthes, Roland 123

Rumination 8 Catastrophe of Success: Marshall McLuhan, Gilles / Deleuze, Felix Guattari Guattari, Felix 137.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137429933

1137429933

OCLC:

875769270