Soul Thieves [electronic resource] : The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture /
Brown, T.author.
Kopano, B.author.
Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony.
Cover; Title ; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Soul Thieves: White America and the Appropriation of Hip Hop and Black Culture; 2 The Appropriation of Blackness in Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show; 3 Cash Rules Everything around Me: Appropriation, Commodification, and the Politics of Contemporary Protest Music and Hip Ho; 4 I'm Hip: An Exploration of Rap Music's Creative Guise; 5 Foraging Fashion: African American Influences on Cultural Aesthetics; 6 In the Eye of the Beholder: Definitions of Beauty in Popular Black Magazines
7 Neutering the Black Power Movement: The Hijacking of Protest Symbolism8 A Silent Protest: The 1968 Olympiad and the Appropriation of Black Athletic Power; 9 Imagining a Strange New World:; 10 So You Think You Can Dance: Black Dance and American Popular Culture; Contributors; Index
Includes index.
Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony.
Social history.
United States—History.
Civilization—History.
America—History.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Cultural studies.
Social History.
US History.
Cultural History.
History of the Americas.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Cultural Studies.