What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the spirituals,
classic blues, ragtime, classic jazz, and bebop? What did rap music
and hip hop culture inherit from the Black Women's Club Movement,
New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Hipster Movement, and Black
Muslim Movement? How did black popular music and black popular
culture between 1900 and the 1950s influence white youth culture,
especially the Lost Generation and the Beat Generation, in ways
that mirror rap music and hip hop culture's influence on
contemporary white youth music, culture, and politics? In Hip Hop's
Amnesia award-winning author, spoken-word artist, and
multi-instrumentalist Reiland Rabaka answers these questions by
rescuing and reclaiming the often-overlooked early twentieth
century origins and evolution of rap music and hip hop culture. Hip
Hop's Amnesia is a study about aesthetics and politics, music and
social movements, as well as the ways in which African Americans'
unique history and culture has consistently led them to create
musics that have served as the soundtracks for their
socio-political aspirations and frustrations, their socio-political
organizations and nationally-networked movements. The musics of the
major African American social and political movements of the 1950s,
1960s, and 1970s were based and ultimately built on earlier forms
of "African American movement music." Therefore, in order to really
and truly understand rap music and hip hop culture we must
critically examine both classical African American musics and the
classical African American movements that these musics served as
soundtracks for. This book is primarily preoccupied with the ways
in which post-enslavement black popular music and black popular
culture frequently served as a soundtrack for and reflected the
grassroots politics of post-enslavement African American social and
political movements. Where many Hip Hop Studies scholars have made
clever allusions to the ways that rap music and hip hop culture are
connected to and seem to innovatively evolve earlier forms of black
popular music and black popular culture, Hip Hop's Amnesia moves
beyond anecdotes and witty allusions and earnestly endeavors a
full-fledged critical examination and archive-informed
re-evaluation of "hip hop's inheritance" from the major African
American musics and movements of the first half of the twentieth
century: classic blues, ragtime, classic jazz, swing, bebop, the
Black Women's Club Movement, the New Negro Movement, the Harlem
Renaissance, the Bebop Movement, the Hipster Movement, and the
Black Muslim Movement.
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