Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-hop Theater and Performance (Hardcover)

Sampling and Remixing Blackness is a timely and accessible book that examines the social ramifications of cultural borrowing and personal adaptation of Hip-hop culture by non-Black and non-African American Black artists in theater and performance. In a cultural moment where Hip-hop theater hits such as Hamilton offer glimpses of Black popular culture to non-Black people through musical soundtracks, GIFs, popular Hip-hop music, language, clothing, singing styles and embodied performance, people around the world are adopting a Blackness that is at once connected to African American culture--and assumed and shed by artists and consumers as they please. As Black people around the world live a racial identity that is not shed, in a cultural moment of social unrest against anti-blackness, this book asks how such engagements with Hip-hop in performance can be both dangerous and a space for finding cultural allies. Featuring the work of some of the visionaries of Hip-hop theater including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sarah Jones and Danny Hoch, this book explores the work of groundbreaking Hip-hop theater and performance artists who have engaged Hip-hop's Blackness through popular performance. The book challenges how we understand the performance of race, Hip-hop and Blackness in the age of Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. In a cultural moment where racial identity is performed through Hip-hop culture's resistance to the status quo and complicity in maintaining it, Hodges Persley asks us to consider who has the right to claim Hip-hop's blackness when blackness itself is a complicated mixtape that offers both consent and resistance to transgressive and inspiring acts of performance.

General

Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	Nicole Hodges Persley
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-472-07511-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Rap & hip-hop Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Rap & hip-hop
LSN:	0-472-07511-X
Barcode:	9780472075119

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