Hip Hop's Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement

by Reiland Rabaka

Book Overview

Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, 'inherited' from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the aforementioned cultural aesthetic traditions with those of hip hop culture, all the while critically exploring the origins and evolution of black popular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739164813
• ISBN13: 9780739164815
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"