Guest Editors Julia Ditter and Andreas Theodorou explore the connections between the past and the present.
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Kendrick Lamar and the Dialectics of Performing Hip Hop
In his recent performance at the 2015 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards in June, Los Angeles rapper Kendrick Lamar performed the song ‘Alright’ while standing defiantly upon a defaced police car, an impossibly large United States flag fluttering behind him. The obvious political nature of both the staging and song choice (with lyrics like ‘we hate po-po/Wanna …
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