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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Life, Death and Rebirth of Art's "Highest Vocation"; Hip Hop asAesthetic Ideal; Chapter Breakdown; Chapter 2: The South Bronx, or the"State of Nature"; A Pre-modern Modernity?; Art fromtheFlames; From Desire toSelf-Determination; From Emancipation totheElements; Conclusion: Towards the Symbolic Foundation; Chapter 3: Graffiti Writing, or the Symbolic Stage Art; Prologue; Building aTemple of Spirit: Symbolic Art; Getting Your Name Out; Going All City; Wild Style and Hitting Trains; The Decline oftheSymbolic. |
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Conclusion: FromtheSymbolic totheClassicalChapter 4: DJing and Breaking, or the Classical Stage of Art; Prologue; From the Temple totheReligion of Art; Filling the Temple: TheClassical Elements; From Breaks toBreakers; Skills; Gathering the Community; Characters, Cyphers and Style; The Religion of Art; "I AmHip Hop"; Conclusion: FromtheClassical totheRomantic; Chapter 5: MCing, or the Romantic Stage of Art; Prologue; Backspin; The Emergence of Poetry fromtheClassical Ideal; "Grandmaster, Cut Faster": TheEpic Poetry oftheFirst MCs; From Epic toLyric Poetry. |
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"Hear Me Talking 'bout Check Books": Romantic Art andtheRise oftheLyrical MC"Rapper's Delight", or the Birth of"Rap Music"; Hip Hop Is Dead; Bring That Beat Back: FromRap Back toHip Hop; Chapter 6: Knowledge, or FromArt toReligion, Philosophy and Politics; Prologue; Rap, Reality and Revolt: Dramatic Poetry; "That's the Breaks": Dramatic Comedy; "It Makes Me Wonder How IKeep from Going Under": Dramatic Tragedy; The Lessons and Limits oftheDramatic, andofArt; From Rap (Back) toHip Hop; Infinite Knowledge forPlanet Rock: HipHop'sFifthElement. |
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Hip Hop Between Art, Religion and PhilosophyConclusion; Chapter 7: Conclusion; Bibliography; Filmography; Index. |
| Summary |
This book argues that Hip Hop's early history in the South Bronx charts a course remarkably similar to the conceptual history of artistic creation presented in Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics. It contends that the resonances between Hegel's account of the trajectory of art in general, and the historical shifts in the particular culture of Hip Hop, are both numerous and substantial enough to make us re-think not only the nature and import of Hegel's philosophy of art, but the origin, essence and lesson of Hip Hop. As a result, the book articulates and defends a unique reading of Hegel's Aesthetics, as well as providing a philosophical explanation of the Hip Hop community's transition from total social abandonment to some limited form of social inclusion, via the specific mediation of an artistic culture grounded in novel forms of sensible expression. Thus, the fundamental thesis of this book is that Hegel and Hip Hop are mutually illuminating, and when considered in tandem each helps to clarify and reinforce the validity and power of the other. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjhyXcjqGcXKyp9GC4KBP |
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Hip-hop -- Social aspects.
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Music and philosophy.
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Liberty in music.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical. |
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MUSIC -- Reference. |
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice. |
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MUSIC -- Lyrics. |
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal. |
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Liberty in music |
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Music and philosophy |
| Other Form: |
Print version : 9783319913032 |
| ISBN |
9783319913049 (electronic bk.) |
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3319913042 (electronic bk.) |
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9783319913032 |
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3319913034 |
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