| Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism Contributor(s): Potter, Russell a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791426262 ISBN-13: 9780791426265 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Music - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Music | Printed Music - General |
| Dewey: 782.421 |
| LCCN: 94-24990 |
| Series: Suny Postmodern Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.04" W x 9.18" (0.72 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Spectacular Vernaculars examines hip-hop's cultural rebellion in terms of its specific implications for postmodern theory and practice, using the politics of reception as its primary rhetorical ground. Hip-hop culture in general, and rap music in particular, present model sites for such an inquiry, since they enact both postmodern modes of production--the appropriation of tropes, technologies, and material culture--and a potential means of resistance to the commodification of cultural forms under late capitalism. By paying specific attention to the historical and cultural context of hip-hop as a black artform and locating its practice of resistance in terms of a postmodernist reading of consumer culture, this book offers a complex reading of hip-hop as a postmodern practice, with implications both for theories of postmodernism and cultural studies as a whole. |