Hip hop, Hegel, and the art of emancipation : let's get free / Jim Vernon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vernon, Jim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hip-hop--New York (State)--New York--History.

Hip-hop.

Hip-hop--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Ästhetik.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

History.

Bronx (New York, N.Y.)--Civilization.

Bronx (New York, N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

vii, 259 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Let's get free

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , [2018]

Summary:

This book argues that Hip Hop's early history in the South Bronx charts a course remarkably similar to the conceptual history of artistic creation presented in Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics. It contends that the resonances between Hegel's account of the trajectory of art in general, and the historical shifts in the particular culture of pre-recording Hip Hop, are both numerous and substantial enough to make us re-think not only the nature and import of Hegel's philosophy of art, but also the origin, essence, and lesson of Hip Hop. As a result, the book articulates and defends a unique and critical reading of Hegel's Aesthetics, in order to provide a philosophical explanation of the Hip Hop community's transition out of a unique form of social alienation through the specific mediation of a collectively created artistic culture. Thus, Jim Vernon suggests that Hegel and Hip Hop are mutually illuminating, and when considered in tandem, each helps to clarify the living power of the other--back cover.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The South Bronx, or the "state of nature"

3. Graffiti writing, or the symbolic stage art

4. DJing and breaking, or the classical stage of art

5. MCing, or the romantic stage of art

6. Knowledge, or from art to religion, philosophy and politics

7. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Vernon, Jim. Hip hop, Hegel and the art of emancipation.

ISBN:

3319913034

9783319913032

OCLC:

1030910541

Publisher Number:

99977725454