Hip hop heresies : queer aesthetics in New York City /
This is the first book-length project to examine the relationship between blackness, queerness and hip hop. Using aesthetics as its organizing lens, Hip Hop Heresies attends to the ways that hip hop cultural production in New York City from the 1970s through the first fifteen years of the 21st centu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Postmillennial pop.
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| Summary: | This is the first book-length project to examine the relationship between blackness, queerness and hip hop. Using aesthetics as its organizing lens, Hip Hop Heresies attends to the ways that hip hop cultural production in New York City from the 1970s through the first fifteen years of the 21st century produced hip hop cultural products (film, visual art and music) that offer "queer articulations" of race, gender and sexuality that are contrary to hegemonic ideas and representations of those categories in hip hop production, as well as in writing about hip hop culture. |
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| Physical Description: | 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479808199 1479808199 9781479808205 1479808202 |