Hip Hop

Download or read book Hip Hop Heresies written by Shanté Paradigm Smalls and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book-length project to examine the relationship between blackness, queerness, and hip hop. Using aesthetics as its organizing lens, Hip Hop Heresies attends to the ways that hip hop cultural production in New York City from the 1970s through the first fifteen years of the 21st century produced hip hop cultural products (film, visual art, and music) that offer "queer articulations" of race, gender, and sexuality that are contrary to hegemonic ideas and representations of those categories in hip hop production, as well as in writing about hip hop culture"--