Posthuman rap

by Burton, Justin Adams

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Title Statements

Full title :Posthuman rap / Justin Adams Burton.

Summary

Posthuman Rap listens for the ways contemporary rap maps an existence outside the traditional boundaries of what it means to be human. Contemporary humanity is shaped in neoliberal terms, where being human means being viable in a capitalist marketplace that favors whiteness, masculinity, heterosexuality, and fixed gender identities. But musicians from Nicki Minaj to Future to Rae Sremmurd deploy queerness and sonic blackness as they imagine different ways of being human. Building on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Alexander Weheliye, Lester Spence, LH Stallings, and a broad swath of queer and critical race theory, Posthuman Rap turns an ear especially toward hip hop that is often read as apolitical in order to hear its posthuman possibilities, its construction of a humanity that is blacker, queerer, more feminine than the norm [Publisher description]

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2017

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 155 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780190235451, 0190235454, 9780190235468, 0190235462
oclc:ocn967337356
LC Classification:ML3531
Dewey Decimal:782.421649

Introduction : Pre-echo : monsters in the mix -- Posthuman : "Completely outside our present conception of what it is to be human" -- "Cheap and easy radicalism" : the legible politics of Kendrick Lamar -- Sonic blackness and the illegibility of trap irony -- Party politics : Rae Sremmurd's Club as posthuman vestibule -- Epilogue : Posthuman sub-bass.

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Kulturkritik Music -- Recording & Reproduction MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop Posthumanismus Rap Rap (Music) Rap (Music) -- History and criticism Rap (Music) -- Social aspects USA