Hip-Hop as Philosophical Text and Testimony

Can I Get a Witness?

Lissa Skitolsky (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

204 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6670-4 (ISBN)

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Hip-hop as survivor testimony? Rhymes as critical text? Drawing on her own experiences as a lifelong hip-hop head and philosophy professor, Lissa Skitolsky reveals the existential power of hip-hop to affect our sensibility and understanding of race and anti-black racism. Hip-Hop as Philosophical Text and Testimony: Can I Get a Witness? examines how the exclusion of hip-hop from academic discourse around knowledge, racism, white supremacy, genocide, white nationalism, and trauma reflects the very neoliberal sensibility that hip-hop exposes and opposes. At this critical moment in history, in the midst of a long overdue global reckoning with systemic anti-black racism, Skitolsky shows how it is more important than ever for white people to realize that our failure to see this system—and take hip-hop seriously—has been essential to its reproduction. In this book, she illustrates the unique power of underground hip-hop to interrupt our neoliberal and post-racial sensibility of current events.

Lissa Skitolsky is the 2020-2021 Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies at Dalhousie University.

Introduction: It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop
Chapter One: Know What I’m Sayin?
Chapter Two: Can I Get a Witness?
Chapter Three: Claimin I’m a Criminal
Chapter Four: But You Don’t Hear Me Tho
Chapter Five: You Feel Me?
Chapter Six: Fuck Tha Police
Conclusion: The Aesthetic Politics of Underground Hip-Hop
Playlist by Chapter
Discography

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy of Race
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 239 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	1-4985-6670-7 / 1498566707
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-6670-4 / 9781498566704
Zustand	Neuware