Hip Hop as Philosophical Text and Testimony: Can I Get a Witness?

By Lissa Skitolsky

Book Overview

The author defends the philosophical value of underground hip-hop through illustrating how the culture significantly contributes to debates in multiple academic fields. She also examines the exclusion of hip-hop from discourses on knowledge, racism, genocide and trauma as a reflection of the neoliberal sensibility that hip-hop exposes and opposes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498566723
• ISBN13: 9781498566728
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"