Sampling and remixing Blackness in Hip-hop theater and performance / Nicole Hodges Persley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodges Persley, Nicole, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hip-hop.

Music and race--United States.

Music and race.

African American arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Summary:

Sampling and Remixing Blackness is a timely and accessible book that examines the social ramifications of cultural borrowing and personal adaptation of Hip-hop culture by non-Black and non-African American Black artists in theater and performance. In a cultural moment where Hip-hop theater hits such as Hamilton offer glimpses of Black popular culture to non-Black people through musical soundtracks, GIFs, popular Hip-hop music, language, clothing, singing styles and embodied performance, people around the world are adopting a Blackness that is at once connected to African American culture--and assumed and shed by artists and consumers as they please. As Black people around the world live a racial identity that is not shed, in a cultural moment of social unrest against anti-blackness, this book asks how such engagements with Hip-hop in performance can be both dangerous and a space for finding cultural allies. Featuring the work of some of the visionaries of Hip-hop theater including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sarah Jones and Danny Hoch, this book explores the work of groundbreaking Hip-hop theater and performance artists who have engaged Hip-hop's Blackness through popular performance. The book challenges how we understand the performance of race, Hip-hop and Blackness in the age of Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. In a cultural moment where racial identity is performed through Hip-hop culture's resistance to the status quo and complicity in maintaining it, Hodges Persley asks us to consider who has the right to claim Hip-hop's blackness when blackness itself is a complicated mixtape that offers both consent and resistance to transgressive and inspiring acts of performance.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Sampling and Remixing Hip-Hop's Blackness in Contemporary Hip-Hop Theater and Performance

One: Licensed to Ill: Performing Alternative White Masculinities in Danny Hoch's Jails, Hospitals &amp

Hip-Hop and Matt Sax's Clay

Two: Empire State of Mind: Performing Remixes of the Hip-Hop American Dream in Nikki S. Lee's The Hip Hop Project and Sarah Jones's Bridge &amp

Tunnel

Three: One Nation Under a Groove: (Re)Membering Hip-Hop Dance in Jonzi D's TAG and Rennie Harris's Rome &amp

Jewels

Four: Musical Mash-Ups of Americanness: Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights and Matt Sax's Venice

Five: Hamilton: An American Musical's Ghosts: Digging up American History

Six: Conclusion | Arrested Developments: New Arrangements of Identity in Hip-Hop Performance

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-296) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472129614

0472129619

OCLC:

1264230507