Hip Hops Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has; literally; inherited from the Harlem Renaissance; the Black Arts movement; the Feminist Art movement; and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the aforementioned cultural aesthetic traditions with those of hip hop culture; all the while critically exploring the origins and evolution of black popular culture from antebellum America through to Obamas America; Hip Hops Inheritance demonstrates that the hip hop generation is not the first generation of young black (and white) folk preoccupied with spirituality and sexuality; race and religion; entertainment and athletics; or ghetto culture and bourgeois culture. Taking interdisciplinarity and intersectionality seriously; Hip Hops Inheritance employs the epistemologies and methodologies from a wide range of academic and organic intellectual/activist communities in its efforts to advance an intellectual history and critical theory of hip hop culture. Drawing from academic and organic intellectual/activist communities as diverse as African American studies and womens studies; postcolonial studies and sexuality studies; history and philosophy; politics and economics; and sociology and ethnomusicology; Hip Hops Inheritance calls into question one-dimensional and monodisciplinary interpretations or; rather; misinterpretations; of a multidimensional and multivalent form of popular culture that has increasingly come to include cultural criticism; social commentary; and political analysis.
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