Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement
ISBN-10
0807009865
ISBN-13
9780807009864
Category
Music
Pages
310
Language
English
Published
2006-08-01
Publisher
Beacon Press
Author
S. Craig Watkins

Description

Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the "hip hop generation," Hip Hop Matters focuses on fierce and far-reaching battles being waged in politics, pop culture, and academe to assert control over the movement. At stake, Watkins argues, is the impact hip hop has on the lives of the young people who live and breathe the culture. He presents incisive analysis of the corporate takeover of hip hop and the rampant misogyny that undermines the movement's progressive claims. Ultimately, we see how hip hop struggles reverberate in the larger world: global media consolidation; racial and demographic flux; generational cleavages; the reinvention of the pop music industry; and the ongoing struggle to enrich the lives of ordinary youth.

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