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Posthuman Rap

By Burton, Justin Adams

Posthuman Rap

By Burton, Justin Adams

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Posthuman Rap listens for the ways contemporary rap maps an existence outside the traditional boundaries of what it means to be human. Contemporary humanity is shaped in neoliberal terms, where being human means being viable in a capitalist marketplace that favors whiteness, masculinity, heterosexuality, and fixed gender identities. But musicians from Nicki Minaj to Future to Rae Sremmurd deploy queerness and sonic blackness as they imagine different ways of being human. Building on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Alexander Weheliye, Lester Spence, LH Stallings, and a broad swath of queer and critical race theory, Posthuman Rap turns an ear especially toward hip hop that is often read as apolitical in order to hear its posthuman possibilities, its construction of a humanity that is blacker, queerer, more feminine than the norm.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
172
Release Date:
2017-10-02
Publication Date:
2017-10-02
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190235462
ISBN13:
9780190235468
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
272 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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