hip hop

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Kendrick Lamar and the Dialectics of Performing Hip Hop

Bryan Banker September 7, 2015 1 Comment African American community American culture American identity Black Lives Matter Cleveland contemporary art contemporary culture defiance dialectics embodiment Hegel hip hop Kendrick Lamar Michael Chabon music performative consciousness political activism protest racism violence W.E.B. Du Bois

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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Alternative Fictioneers

Mark P. Williams June 1, 2012 4 Comments AK Distribution Alan Moore alternative publishing avant-gardism CodeX Creation Press Decadent Surrealism drum n bass experimental British fiction globalisation Grant Morrison Headpress hip hop Mark Waugh New Wave pop culture Pulp Fiction punk science fiction small presses Spare Change Books Stewart Home surrealism

Outside of academic postmodernism, around the edges of genre fiction, and beyond the purview of the mainstream literary novel…

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