The cultural impact of Kanye West
By: edited by Julius Bailey
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781137395818
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Rap (Music); History and criticism; Rap musicians; African Americans; Music
Description: "The ability of popular art to offer societal critiques and challenge received ideas has been recognized throughout history. Through rap and hip-hop, composers, singers, and entertainers have recently provided a voice questioning and challenging the sanctioned view of the times. This book offers an in-depth reading of the works and cultural impact of Kanye West. Looking at the moral and social implications of West's words, images, and music in the broader context of Western civilization's preconceived ideas, the contributors consider how West both challenges religious and moral norms and propagates them."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Julius Bailey; title: Revisiting the pharmakon : artistic gifts / Human Complexities; title: Now I ain't saying he's a "crate digger" : Kanye West and the soul archive / Mark Anthony Neal; title: Kanye west: asterisk genius? / Akil Houston; title: Afrofuturism : the visual imagery of Kanye West / Reynaldo Anderson & John Jennings; title: You got Kanyed : seen but not heard / David J. Leonard; title: An examination of the Kanye West higher education trilogy / Heidi R. Lewis; title: Unpacking hetero-normativity and complicating race and gender; title: "By any means necessary" : Kanye West and the hypermasculine construct / ShaDawn Battle; title: Kanye West's sonic cosmopolitanism / Regina Bradley; title: Hard to get straight Kanye West, masculine anxiety, dis-dentification / Timm West; title: You can't stand the nigger I see! : Kanye West's analysis of anti-Black death / Tommy Curry; title: Theorizing the aesthetic, the political and the existential; title: When Apollo and Dionysus clash : a Nietzschean perspective on the work of Kanye West / Julius Bailey; title: The god of the new slaves or slave to a religion and a god? / Monica Miller; title: Trimalchio from Chicago : flashing lights & the great Kanye in West egg / A.D. Carson; title: Confidently (non)cognizant of neoliberalism : Kanye West and the interruption of Taylor Swift / Nick Krebs; title: Kanye Omari West : visions of modernity / Dawn Boeck.