Potter, Russell A., 1960-

Spectacular vernaculars : hip-hop and the politics of postmodernism / Russell A. Potter. - x, 197 pages ; 24 cm. - SUNY series in postmodern culture . - SUNY series in postmodern culture. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Coming to Terms: Rap Music as Radical Postmodernism -- Gettin' Present as an Art: A Signifyin(g) Hipstory of Hip-hop -- Postmodernity and the Hip-hop Vernacular -- The Pulse of the Rhyme Flow: Hip-hop Signifyin(g) and the Politics of Reception -- History - Spectacle - Resistance -- "Are You Afraid of the Mix of Black and White?" Hip-hop and the Spectacular Politics of Race -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5.

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Rap (Music)--Political aspects
Postmodernism.

ML3531 / .P68 1995

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