The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture
Subtitle: Beneath the Surface
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 11, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781137305244
Description: "In the Hip Hop Underground and African American Culture, Peterson explores a variety of 'underground' concepts at the intersections of African American literature and Hip Hop Culture. From the Underground Railroad to black holes or from kiln holes to solitary confinement, this project makes meaningful connections across multiple iterations of Black concepts of the underground. Since socially conscious Hip Hop music inherits much of its socio-political and figurative significance from the Black underground it functions as a logical recurring subject matter for this study--situated at Black cultural and conceptual crossroads"--
Notes: Source title: The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture: Beneath the Surface