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Posthuman Rap

By (author) Justin Adams Burton
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, United States
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Published: 26th Oct 2017
Dimensions: w 163mm h 238mm d 15mm
Weight: 384g
ISBN-10: 0190235454
ISBN-13: 9780190235451
Barcode No: 9780190235451
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Posthuman Rap listens for the ways contemporary rap maps an existence outside the traditional boundaries of what it means to be human. Contemporary humanity is shaped in neoliberal terms, where being human means being viable in a capitalist marketplace that favors whiteness, masculinity, heterosexuality, and fixed gender identities. But musicians from Nicki Minaj to Future to Rae Sremmurd deploy queerness and sonic blackness as they imagine different ways of being human. Building on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Alexander Weheliye, Lester Spence, LH Stallings, and a broad swath of queer and critical race theory, Posthuman Rap turns an ear especially toward hip hop that is often read as apolitical in order to hear its posthuman possibilities, its construction of a humanity that is blacker, queerer, more feminine than the norm.

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Posthuman Rap ties together choice references and pertinent case studies to offer a compelling account of the political potential of never stopping the party. * Steven Gamble, Popular Music *