num_pages: 430
description: 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 &amp; blues and rock &amp; 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 books 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 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 &amp; blues rock &amp; roll soul and funk and previous black popular movements such as the Black Womens Club Movement New Negro Movement Harlem Renaissance Civil Rights Movement Black Power Movement Black Arts Movement and Black Womens 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.
language: English
title: The Hip Hop Movement: From R&B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation
publisher: Lexington Books