The hip-hop underground and African American culture : beneath the surface / James Braxton Peterson.

"In the Hip Hop Underground and African American Culture, Peterson explores a variety of 'underground' concepts at the intersections of African American literature and Hip Hop Culture. From the Underground Railroad to black holes or from kiln holes to solitary confinement, this project makes meaning...

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Main Author: Peterson, James Braxton, 1971- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Hip-hop > United States.
Subculture > United States.
Counterculture > United States.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans > Race identity.
African American youth > Social conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Physical Description:xiii, 187 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Roots, rhymes, and rhizomes : an introduction to the concepts of the underground in Black culture
  • Verbal and spatial masks of the underground
  • The hip-hop underground and African American culture : the deep structure of Black identity in American literature
  • Defining an underground at the intersections of hip-hop and African American cultures
  • A cipher of the underground in Black literary culture
  • Tears for the departed : see(k)ing a Black visual underground in hip-hop and African American cultures
  • The depth of the hole : intertextuality and Tom Waits's "Way down in the hole"
  • Epilogue: The ironies underground : revolution, critical memory, and Black nostalgia.