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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 3.1 - Special Issue "Critical Environments" Previous Issues

Performing Carbon (in the) Capital

Sam Solnick September 24, 2014 2 Comments art art activism Art Not Oil BP carbon climate change ecocriticism Liberate Tate London Oil City Platform political activism Sunflower

It is rush hour in Liverpool Street Station. Hiding behind a copy of my newspaper I am trying to record a conversation between lobbyists…

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