Make rappers rap again : interrogating the mumble rap "crisis" /
"Many critics claim Mumble Rap is not real Hip Hop (or the most authentic or pure Hip Hop), because mumble rappers are ignorant about Hip Hop history, disrespectful toward Hip Hop elders, too similar, unskilled, prone to rapping about nonsense, and too soft or feminine. Some critics have even d...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Theorizing African American music
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Many critics claim Mumble Rap is not real Hip Hop (or the most authentic or pure Hip Hop), because mumble rappers are ignorant about Hip Hop history, disrespectful toward Hip Hop elders, too similar, unskilled, prone to rapping about nonsense, and too soft or feminine. Some critics have even declared Hip Hop dead (again). Contrarily and perhaps controversially, Lewis argues Mumble Rap is real Hip Hop. Relying primarily on discourse analysis, Lewis examines Mumble Rap's congruence with oft forgotten or subjugated Hip Hop cornerstones like illegibility, melody, the DJ, and the subgenre, as well as the ways most mumble rappers practice citational and collaborative politics that are congruent with real Hip Hop. She also takes a critical approach to examining the Mumble Rap sound, arguing it is much more complicated than it's often characterized, especially concerning flow and production. To explain the subjugation of Mumble Rap, Lewis situates the subgenre as southern and examines the ways it challenges dominant notions about real Hip Hop masculinity vis-à-vis attention to the mental and emotional, drug use and addiction, and the fallacies of gender and sexuality norms"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 202 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197773840 0197773842 9780197773857 0197773850 0197773834 9780197773833 |