The Hip Hop Movement offers a critical theory and alternative
history of rap music and hip hop culture by examining their roots
in the popular musics and popular cultures of the Civil Rights
Movement and Black Power Movement. Connecting classic rhythm &
blues and rock & roll to the Civil Rights Movement, and classic
soul and funk to the Black Power Movement, The Hip Hop Movement
explores what each of these musics and movements contributed to
rap, neo-soul, hip hop culture, and the broader Hip Hop Movement.
Ultimately, this book's remixes (as opposed to chapters) reveal
that black popular music and black popular culture have always been
more than merely "popular music" and "popular culture" in the
conventional sense and reflect a broader social, political, and
cultural movement. With this in mind, sociologist and musicologist
Reiland Rabaka critically reinterprets rap and neo-soul as popular
expressions of the politics, social visions, and cultural values of
a contemporary multi-issue movement: the Hip Hop Movement. Rabaka
argues that rap music, hip hop culture, and the Hip Hop Movement
are as deserving of critical scholarly inquiry as previous black
popular musics, such as the spirituals, blues, ragtime, jazz,
rhythm & blues, rock & roll, soul, and funk, and previous
black popular movements, such as the Black Women's Club Movement,
New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement,
Black Power Movement, Black Arts Movement, and Black Women's
Liberation Movement. This volume, equal parts alternative history
of hip hop and critical theory of hip hop, challenges those
scholars, critics, and fans of hip hop who lopsidedly over-focus on
commercial rap, pop rap, and gangsta rap while failing to
acknowledge that there are more than three dozen genres of rap
music and many other socially and politically progressive forms of
hip hop culture beyond DJing, MCing, rapping, beat-making,
break-dancing, and graffiti-writing.
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