Contextualizing Hip Hop Sonic Cool Pose in Late Twentieth– and Twenty–first–century Rap Music
In considering the cultural significance of rap music in (mis)conceptualizations of American identity, it is important to point out commercialized rap’s attachment to notions of blackness that are presumed irrefutable. Likewise, constructions of racial discourse in popular culture cannot be divorce...
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Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2012-03-01
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Series: | Current Musicology |
Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5220 |