The hip-hop underground and African American culture : beneath the surface / James Braxton Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, James Braxton, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hip-hop--United States.

Hip-hop.

African American youth.

Social conditions.

Counterculture.

United States.

Subculture--United States.

Subculture.

Counterculture--United States.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

Literature and society--United States.

Literature and society.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African Americans--Race identity.

African American youth--Social conditions.

African Americans--Social conditions--1975-.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiii, 187 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

"In the Hip Hop Underground and African American Culture, Peterson explores a variety of 'underground' concepts at the intersections of African American literature and Hip Hop Culture. From the Underground Railroad to black holes or from kiln holes to solitary confinement, this project makes meaningful connections across multiple iterations of Black concepts of the underground. Since socially conscious Hip Hop music inherits much of its socio-political and figurative significance from the Black underground it functions as a logical recurring subject matter for this study--situated at Black cultural and conceptual crossroads"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Roots Rhymes and Rhizomes : An Introduction to the Concepts of the Underground in Black Culture

Verbal and Spatial Masks in the Underground

The Deep Structure of Black Identity in American Literature

Defining an Underground at the Intersections of Hip-Hop and African American Culture

A Cipher of the Underground in Black Literary Culture

Tears for the Departed : See(k)ing a Black Visual Underground in Hip-Hop and African American Cultures

The Depth of the Hole : Intertextuality and Tom Waits's "Way Down in the Hole"

Epilogue: The Ironies Underground : Revolution, Critical Memory, and Black Nostalgia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781137305244

113730524X

OCLC:

881655831

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