Spectacular vernaculars
Subtitle: hip-hop and the politics of postmodernism
By: Russell A. Potter.
Series: The SUNY series in postmodern culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Rap (Music) -- Political aspects; Postmodernism
Description: Spectacular Vernaculars examines hip-hop's cultural rebellion in terms of its specific implications for postmodern theory and practice, using the politics of reception as its primary rhetorical ground. Hip-hop culture in general, and rap music in particular, present model sites for such an inquiry, since they enact both postmodern modes of production--the appropriation of tropes, technologies, and material culture--and a potential means of resistance to the commodification of cultural forms under late capitalism. By paying specific attention to the historical and cultural context of hip-hop as a black artform and locating its practice of resistance in terms of a postmodernist reading of consumer culture, this book offers a complex reading of hip-hop as a postmodern practice, with implications both for theories of postmodernism and cultural studies as a whole [Publisher description]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-191) and index.