The hip hop & Obama reader /
Offers an analysis of hip hop and politics in the Obama era and beyond, with new perspectives on hip hop's role in political mobilization, grassroots organizing, campaign branding, and voter turnout
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
Publication Dates: | [2015] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Summary: |
Offers an analysis of hip hop and politics in the Obama era and beyond, with new perspectives on hip hop's role in political mobilization, grassroots organizing, campaign branding, and voter turnout |
Carrier Form: | xx, 313 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9780199341818 0199341818 9780199341801 019934180X |
Index Number: | ML3531 |
CLC: |
J654 J605 |
Call Number: | J605/H667 |
Contents: | Introduction : the state of hip hop in the age of Obama / Erik Nielson and Travis L. Gosa -- Move the crowd : hip hop politics in the United States and abroad. Message from the grassroots : hip hop activism, millennials, and the race for the White House / Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar ; It's bigger than Barack : hip hop political organizing, 2004-2013 / Bakari Kitwana and Elizabeth Mâendez Berry ; "There are no saviors" : an interview with Keven Powell / Travis L. Gosa and Erik Nielson ; "Obama nation" : hip hop and global protest / Sujantha Fernandes ; "Record! I am Arab" : paranoid Arab boys, global ciphers, and hip hip nationalism / Torie Rose DeGhett -- Change we can believe in? : the contested discourse of Obama and hip hop. Obama, hip hop, African American history, and "historical revivalism" / Pero Gaglo Dagbovie ; "Change that wouldn't fill a homeless man's cup up" : Filipino American political hip hop and community organizing in the age of Obama / Anthony Kwame Harrison ; Obama/time : the President in the hip hop nation / Murray Forman ; One day it will all make sense : Obama, politics, and common sense / Charlie Braxton ; "New slaves" : the soul of hip hop sold to da massah in the age of Obama / Raphael Heaggans -- Represent : gender and language in the Obama era. You tube, bad bitches, and an M.I.C. (Mom-in-Chief) : on the digital seduction of black girls in participatory hip-hop spaces / Kyra D. Gaunt ; A performative account of black girlhood / Ruth Nicole Brown ; The King's English : Obama, Jay Z, and the science of code switching / Michael P. Jeffries ; My President is black : speech act theory and presidential allusions in the lyrics of rap music / James Peterson and Cynthia Estremera -- Afterword : when will black lives matter? : neoliberalism, democracy, and the queering of American activism in the post-Obama era / Cathy J. Cohen. |