The hip-hop underground and African American culture :
[Book]
beneath the surface /
James Braxton Peterson.
xiii, 187 pages ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index.
Roots Rhymes and Rhizomes : An Introduction to the Concepts of the Underground -- Verbal and Spatial Masks in the Underground -- The Deep Structure of Black Identity in American Literature -- Defining an Underground at the Intersections of Hip-Hop and African American Culture -- A Cipher of the Underground in Black Literary Culture -- Tears for the Departed : See(k)ing a Black Visual Underground in Hip-Hop and African American Cultures -- The Depth of the Hole : Intertextuality and Tom Waits's "Way Down in the Hole" -- Epilogue: The Ironies Underground : Revolution, Critical Memory, and Black Nostalgia.
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"The underground is a multi-faceted concept in African American culture. Peterson explores a variety of 'underground' concepts at the intersections of African American literature and hip hop culture using Richard Wright, KRS-One, Thelonius Monk, and the tradition of the Underground Railroad, among other examples. This project makes meaningful connections across multiple iterations of Black concepts of the underground. Since socially conscious Hip Hop music inherits much of its socio-political and figurative significance from the Black underground it functions as a logical recurring subject matter for this study--situated at Black cultural and conceptual crossroads"--
African American youth-- Social conditions.
African Americans-- Intellectual life.
African Americans-- Race identity.
African Americans-- Social conditions-- 1975-
American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
Counterculture-- United States.
Hip-hop-- United States.
Literature and society-- United States.
Subculture-- United States.
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.