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Critical Excess - Watch the Throne and the New Gilded Age (Hardcover)
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Critical Excess - Watch the Throne and the New Gilded Age (Hardcover)
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Jay-Z and Kanye West's 2011 Watch the Throne is a self-avowed
"luxury rap" album centered on Eurocentric conceptions of nobility,
artistry, and haute couture. Critical Excess performs a close
reading of the sonic and social commentary on this album, examining
how the album alternately imagines and critiques the mutually
reinforcing ideas of Europe, nobility, old money, art, and their
standard bearer, whiteness. Reading the album alongside Black
critical theory and work on the prophetic nature of music,
Rollefson argues that through their performance of black
excellence, opulence, and decadence, Jay-Z and Kanye West poured
gas on the white resentment of the Obama presidency-a resentment
that would ultimately spill over into public life, make audible the
dog whistling of the Far Right, and embolden white supremacists to
come out from under their rocks. Ultimately, Rollefson argues,
Jay-Z and Kanye West's performance of what Rollefson calls
"critical excess" on this album exceeds the limits of conspicuous
consumption and heralds the final stage of late capitalism-"the New
Gilded Age."
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