Deathlife : Hip Hop and thanatological narrations of blackness / Anthony B. Pinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinn, Anthony B., author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--Religious aspects.

Rap (Music).

Rap (Music)--Social aspects.

Hip-hop--Influence.

Hip-hop.

African Americans--Songs and music--Social aspects.

African Americans.

African Americans--Race identity.

Death in music.

Life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks including Afropessimism and Black Moralism, Deathlife uses Hip Hop to explore the ways in which Blackness serves as a framework defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Anthony B. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the ability to distinguish death and life-to bracket off death for the sake of life. And this ability is produced and safeguarded through the construction of Blackness as death. Over against this effort to distinguish life and death, what hip hop demonstrates is the manner in which death and life are interconnected and dependent in such a way as to render them indistinguishable. Drawing on artists like Kendrick Lamar, Tyler the Creator, and Jay-Z, Deathlife argues that hip hop recognizes this dependency and explores its nature and meaning"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Paradigms of Death (or Life) and Deathlife

Signifying Deathlife

The Orphic Hustler

The Antihero

Consuming Deathlife

Bacchic Intent

Zombic Hunger

Two Types of Melancholia.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Pinn, Anthony B. Deathlife.

ISBN:

9781478027485

1478027487

9781478093824

147809382X

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.