The Cultural Impact of Kanye West [electronic resource] /
Bailey, J.editor.
Through rap and hip hop, entertainers have provided a voice questioning and challenging the sanctioned view of society. Examining the moral and social implications of Kanye West's art in the context of Western civilization's preconceived ideas, the contributors consider how West both challenges religious and moral norms and propagates them.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Julius Bailey -- Revisiting the pharmakon : artistic gifts / Human Complexities -- Now I ain't saying he's a "crate digger" : Kanye West and the soul archive / Mark Anthony Neal -- Kanye west: asterisk genius? / Akil Houston -- Afrofuturism : the visual imagery of Kanye West / Reynaldo Anderson & John Jennings -- You got Kanyed : seen but not heard / David J. Leonard -- An examination of the Kanye West higher education trilogy / Heidi R. Lewis -- Unpacking hetero-normativity and complicating race and gender -- "By any means necessary" : Kanye West and the hypermasculine construct / ShaDawn Battle -- Kanye West's sonic cosmopolitanism / Regina Bradley -- Hard to get straight Kanye West, masculine anxiety, dis-dentification / Timm West -- You can't stand the nigger I see! : Kanye West's analysis of anti-Black death / Tommy Curry -- Theorizing the aesthetic, the political and the existential -- When Apollo and Dionysus clash : a Nietzschean perspective on the work of Kanye West / Julius Bailey -- The god of the new slaves or slave to a religion and a god? / Monica Miller -- Trimalchio from Chicago : flashing lights & the great Kanye in West egg / A.D. Carson -- Confidently (non)cognizant of neoliberalism : Kanye West and the interruption of Taylor Swift / Nick Krebs -- Kanye Omari West : visions of modernity / Dawn Boeck.
Through rap and hip hop, entertainers have provided a voice questioning and challenging the sanctioned view of society. Examining the moral and social implications of Kanye West's art in the context of Western civilization's preconceived ideas, the contributors consider how West both challenges religious and moral norms and propagates them.
Music.
Communication.
Popular culture
American Culture.
Music.
Media Studies.
Cultural Studies.