Egotism, elitism, and the ethics of musical humility /
"Scenes from the music video unravel quickly under a piano loop and an 808 drum groove. The figure raps from Jesus' center seat of a long table depicting DaVinci's The Last Supper. He lies in a pile of cash as fawning women count it all around him. Cloaked in white, he stands among a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Scenes from the music video unravel quickly under a piano loop and an 808 drum groove. The figure raps from Jesus' center seat of a long table depicting DaVinci's The Last Supper. He lies in a pile of cash as fawning women count it all around him. Cloaked in white, he stands among a sea of men dressed in black. "Sit down," he repeatedly commands while he stubbornly stands. "Be humble." The all-caps title of Kendrick Lamar's hit song "HUMBLE." leaves no question that his song is, or should be, about humility. Yet, many would probably write it off as an audacious display of bravado instead. His opening question - "wicked or weakness?" - points precisely to this contradiction: a socially constructed binary between arrogance and humility. A Black man who projects strength, resilience, and pride is judged as arrogant; wicked. But to be humble is to be servile; weak"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197692966 9780197692974 0197692974 9780197692950 0197692958 9780197692967 |