Posthuman rap / Justin Adams Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Justin D, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--History and criticism.

Rap (Music).

Rap (Music)--Social aspects.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 155 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Posthuman Rap listens for the ways contemporary rap maps an existence outside the traditional boundaries of what it means to be human. Contemporary humanity in shaped in neoliberal terms, where being human means being viable in a capitalist marketplace that favors whiteness, masculinity, heterosexuality, and fixed gender identities. But musicians-from Nicki Minaj, to Future, to Rae Sremmurd-deploy queerness and sonic blackness as they imaging different ways of being human. Building on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Alexander Weheliye, Lester Spence, LH Stallings, and a broad swath of queer and critical race theory, Posthuman Rap turns an ear, especially toward hip hop, that is often read as apolitical in order to hear its posthuman possibilities, its construction of a humanity that is blacker, queerer, and more feminine than the norm. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Posthuman: "Completely Outside Our Present Conception of What It Is to Be Human" 15

2 "Cheap and Easy Radicalism": The Legible Politics of Kendrick Lamar 45

3 Sonic Blackness and the Illegibility of Trap Irony 69

4 Party Politics: Rae Sremmurd's Club as Posthuman Vestibule 101.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Burton, Justin Adams. Posthuman rap.

ISBN:

9780190235451

0190235454

9780190235468

0190235462

OCLC:

967337356