Hip-hop revolution in the flesh : power, knowledge, and pleasure in Lil' Kim's lyricism / Greg Thomas.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Description: xii, 231 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 023061180X
- 9780230611801
- 782.421649092 22
- ML420.L57 T46 2009
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 782.421649092 LIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A468928B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index.
Orals, head, genius : the power, knowledge, and pleasure of Hard core -- Sexual poetic justice : on African matriarchy, flexible gender systems, and The notorious K.I.M. -- Mic "god/dess," Eshu-Elegba : signifying divine freedom, in the flesh -- (Black) Consciousness (reprise) : neo-souls' "Baduizm," African cinema of liberation, and hip-hop's "QUEEN B@#$H" -- "First female king" : the art of morph and monarchy in La bella mafia's beehive -- It's the lyrical sex pistol : Or, A rebel music that rewrites anatomy, rhyme after fiery rhyme -- The "sound clash" of The naked truth : erotic maroonage, public enemies, and "Rap COINTELPRO."
"An extended study of the writings of Lil' Kim, the multi-platinum selling Hip Hop artist. Examines Lil' Kim's anti-sexist, gender-defiant and ultra-erotic verse alongside issues of race and the politics of imprisonment. This is the first study to apply the tools of literary criticism to Hip Hop's lyrical writings."--Publisher's website.
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