Spectacular Vernaculars - Russell A. Potter

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Title
Spectacular Vernaculars - Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism
Author
Russell A. Potter
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
SUNY Press
Language
English
UK Publication Date
19950831

Spectacular Vernaculars examines hip-hop's cultural rebellion in terms of its specific implications for postmodern theory and practice, using the politics of reception as its primary rhetorical ground. Hip-hop culture in general, and rap music in particular, present model sites for such an inquiry, since they enact both postmodern modes of productionthe appropriation of tropes, technologies, and material cultureand a potential means of resistance to the commodification of cultural forms under late capitalism. By paying specific attention to the historical and cultural context of hip-hop as a black artform and locating its practice of resistance in terms of a postmodernist reading of consumer culture, this book offers a complex reading of hip-hop as a postmodern practice, with implications both for theories of postmodernism and cultural studies as a whole.

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Russell A. Potter is Assistant Professor of English at Colby College.
He hosts a weekly radio program, Roots-n-Rap, in Waterville, Maine.

Type
BOOK
Country of Publication
New York (State)
Number of Pages
208

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