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Issue 4.4 Previous Issues

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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Issue 2.5 Previous Issues

Shakespeare on Television, this Millennium

Sarah Olive October 9, 2013 1 Comment BBC Shakespeare cultural studies documentary film studies filming Shakespeare media studies music popular culture radio plays Renaissance history Shakespeare studies TV adaptations

‘#MargaretThatcher’s ousting from Downing Street described on R4 in terms of a great Shakespearean tragedy #Shakespeare’, ‘Spotting #Shakespeare paraphrases in #FreshMeat’, ‘C4’s tribute to Richard Briars…

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