Hip-Hop as Philosophical Text and Testimony (eBook)

Can I Get a Witness?

Lissa Skitolsky (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
204 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498566711 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.12.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Philosophy of Race
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Schlagworte: Hip Hop • music studies • race studies • Rap Music • Trauma theory
• ISBN-13: 9781498566711 / 9781498566711