Kendrick Lamar and the making of black meaning. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Kendrick Lamar & the making of black meaning
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christopher M. Driscoll, Monica R. Miller and Anthony B. Pinn.
• Editors: Driscoll, Christopher M; Miller, Monica R, 1981-; Pinn, Anthony B
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: K.Dotting the American cultural landscape with black meaning; Part I Section.80 (2011); 1 Kendrick Lamar's Section.80: Reagan-era blues; 2 Can I be both? blackness and the negotiation of binary categories in Kendrick Lamar's Section.80; 3 Hol' up: post-civil rights black theology within Kendrick Lamar's Section.80 album; 4 Singing experience in Section.80: Kendrick Lamar's poetics of problems; Part II Good kid, m.A.A.d. city (2012) 5 The good, the m.A.A.d, and the holy: Kendrick Lamar's meditations on sin and moral agency in the post-gangsta era6 'Real is responsibility': revelations in white through the filter of black realness on good kid, m.A.A.d. city; 7 'Black meaning' out of urban mud: good kid, m.A.A.d city as Compton griot-riff at the crossroads of climate-apocalypse?; 8 Rap as Ragnarök: Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, and the value of competition; Part III To Pimp a Butterfly (2015); 9 Can dead homies speak? the spirit and flesh of black meaning 10 Loving [you] is complicated: black self-love and affirmation in the rap music of Kendrick Lamar11 From 'blackness' to afrofuture to 'impasse': the figura of the Jimi Hendrix/Richie Havens identity revolution as faintly evidenced by the work of Kendrick Lamar and more than a head nod to Lupe Fiasco; 12 Beyond flight and containment: Kendrick Lamar, black study, and an ethics of the wound; Part IV DAMN. (2017); 13 "Real nigga conditions": Kendrick Lamar, grotesque realism, and the open body; 14 DAMNed to the earth: Kendrick Lamar, de/colonial violence, and earthbound salvation 15 Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. as an aesthetic genealogy16 'I'm an Israelite': Kendrick Lamar's spiritual search, Hebrew Israelite religion, and the politics of a celebrity encounter; 17 Damnation, identity, and truth: vocabularies of suffering in Kendrick Lamar's DAMN.; 18 Hebrew Israelite covenantal theology and Kendrick Lamar's constructive project in DAMN.; Conclusion: KENosis: the meaning of Kendrick Lamar; References; Contributors; Index
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 782.421649092; Rap (Music) -- 2011-2020 -- History and criticism; Rap (Music) -- Religious aspects; Rap (Music); RELIGION / Spirituality; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1351010859; 9781351010825; 1351010824; 9781351010849; 1351010840; 9781351010832; 1351010832; 9781351010856
• Related ISBNs: 9781138541511
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2019).
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