An Outkast Reader
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An Outkast Reader
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Author : Regina N. Bradley
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2021-10-01
An Outkast Reader written by Regina N. Bradley and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-01 with Music categories.
OutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past twenty-five years. Through Grammy-winning albums, music videos, feature films, theatrical performances, and fashion, André “André 3000” Benjamin and Antwan “Big Boi” Patton have articulated a vision of postmodern, post–civil rights southern identity that combines the roots of funk, psychedelia, haute couture, R&B, faith and spirituality, and Afrofuturism into a style all its own. This postmodern southern aesthetic, largely promulgated and disseminated by OutKast and its collaborators, is now so prevalent in mainstream American culture (neither Beyoncé Knowles’s “Formation” nor Joss Whedon’s sci-fi /western mashup Firefly could exist without OutKast’s collage aesthetic) that we rarely consider how challenging and experimental it actually is to create a new southern aesthetic. An OutKast Reader, then, takes the group’s aesthetic as a lens through which readers can understand and explore contemporary issues of Blackness, gender, urbanism, southern aesthetics, and southern studies more generally. Divided into sections on regional influences, gender, and visuality, the essays collectively offer a vision of OutKast as a key shaper of conceptions of the twenty-first-century South, expanding that vision beyond long-held archetypes and cultural signifiers. The volume includes a who’s who of hip-hop studies and African American studies scholarship, including Charlie Braxton, Susana M. Morris, Howard Ramsby II, Reynaldo Anderson, and Ruth Nicole Brown.
Outkast
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Author : Jacquelyn Simone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-09
Outkast written by Jacquelyn Simone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09 with categories.
Embodied Expression In Popular Music
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Author : Timothy Koozin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
Embodied Expression In Popular Music written by Timothy Koozin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Music categories.
This book explores the intimate connection between body and instrument in popular music, explaining chords, melodies, riffs, and grooves in terms of embodied movement, which in turn informs the imagination in constructing meaning in songs. Tracing connections from foundational blues, gospel, and rock musicians to current rap artists, author Timothy Koozin demonstrates how a focus on body-instrument interaction can illuminate creative strategies while leveling implied hierarchies of cultural value, revealing how artists represent subjectivities of gender, race, and social class in shaping songs and whole albums.
Chronicling Stankonia
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Author : Regina Bradley
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2021-01-29
Chronicling Stankonia written by Regina Bradley and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-29 with Social Science categories.
This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post–civil rights generation. For scholar and critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast's work is the touchstone, a blend of funk, gospel, and hip-hop developed in conjunction with the work of other culture creators—including T.I., Kiese Laymon, and Jesmyn Ward. This work, Bradley argues, helps define new cultural possibilities for black southerners who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s and have used hip-hop culture to buffer themselves from the historical narratives and expectations of the civil rights era. Andre 3000, Big Boi, and a wider community of creators emerge as founding theoreticians of the hip-hop South, framing a larger question of how the region fits into not only hip-hop culture but also contemporary American society as a whole. Chronicling Stankonia reflects the ways that culture, race, and southernness intersect in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although part of southern hip-hop culture remains attached to the past, Bradley demonstrates how younger southerners use the music to embrace the possibility of multiple Souths, multiple narratives, and multiple points of entry to contemporary southern black identity.
Welcome 2 Houston
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Author : Langston Collin Wilkins
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2023-08-01
Welcome 2 Houston written by Langston Collin Wilkins and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with Music categories.
Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston’s hip hop culture. Interviews with local rap artists, producers, and managers inform an exploration of how artists, audiences, music, and place interact to create a heritage that musicians negotiate in a variety of ways. Street-based musicians, avant-garde underground rappers, and Christian artists offer candid views of the scene while Wilkins delves into related aspects like slab, the area’s hip hop-related car culture. What emerges is a portrait of a dynamic reciprocal process where an artist, having identified with and embodied a social space, reproduces that space in a performance even as the performance reconstructs the social space. A vivid journey through a southern hip hop bastion, Welcome 2 Houston offers readers an inside look at a unique musical culture.
Straight Into Darkness
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Author : Megan Volpert
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2022-09-01
Straight Into Darkness written by Megan Volpert and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-01 with Music categories.
As Megan Volpert stood over train tracks preparing to surrender to the psychedelic blindness of simple human misery, of all the Heartbreakers tracks available to come through her headphones, “Straight Into Darkness” is the one that did. In this highly philosophical and deeply personal exploration of one obscure Tom Petty song, Volpert’s essays comb through the musical, historical, rhetorical, and sociological implications of a forgotten gem in a legendary catalog with satisfying results. Through this epic celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Long After Dark album, Petty and Volpert each emerge as modern mystics who argue that in the face of powerlessness, we rebel anyway. Volpert judges the forty years of Petty’s career with one finger on the pulse of Bob Dylan and an occasional whiff of Bruce Springsteen, looking at the sometimes-violent mob scene of concerts as a type of transcendent communion. Straight Into Darkness offers a compelling vision of rock and roll fandom where the songwriter’s hardworking sense of humor is enough to save us from absurdity. All you need is Albert Camus and a couple of chords.
Third Coast
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Author : Roni Sarig
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2007-09-07
Third Coast written by Roni Sarig and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-07 with Music categories.
Typically, more than half the top rap songs in the country are the work of Southern artists. In a world still stuck in the East/West coast paradigm of the '90s, Southern hip hop has dominated the genre-and defined the culture-for years. And the South's leading lights, most notably OutKast, Timbaland, and more recently, crunk superstars like the Ying Yang Twins and Lil Jon, have expanded the parameters of hip hop. Third Coast is the first book to deal with Southern hip hop as a matter of cultural history, and the first to explain the character and significance of down South rapping to fans as well as outsiders. It tells the story of recent hip hop, marking how far the music has come sonically and culturally since its well-documented New York-centered early years.
This Era Of Black Activism
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Author : Mary Marcel
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2023-10-15
This Era Of Black Activism written by Mary Marcel and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-15 with Social Science categories.
While much focus has been placed on Black Lives Matter activism in response to police and civilian murders of Black men and women, the contributors argue that Black activism in this era has addressed a broader range of issues in a wide array of settings, both on the street and inside institutions and communities. This Era of Black Activism includes chapters on this era of Black activism from 2000-2022. It describes how previous activism has influenced this generation, while showing innovations in political approaches, leadership and organizational formations, and the use of social and other media for movement purposes. Topics include the innovations of #BlackLives Matter as a movement; the Florida activist group Dream Defenders; policing and discrepancies in reporting on Ferguson; the role of citizen cameras in Black activism; social media for Black community coping and well-being; BIPOC Gay Power activism vs. Gay Pride; academic activism by Black and White professors; corporate responses to #BLM; #MeToo and healing within the Black community; Black health activism and the Covid pandemic; and bridging activism and policy for a new social contract. It also offers an additional bibliography on Black activism for environmental justice, athlete anti-racist activism, and the role of the Black Church in this era.
The Power Of Habit By Charles Duhigg Summary Analysis
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Author : Elite Summaries
language : en
Publisher: Elite Summaries
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The Power Of Habit By Charles Duhigg Summary Analysis written by Elite Summaries and has been published by Elite Summaries this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Psychology categories.
Detailed summary and analysis of The Power of Habit.
That S The Joint
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Author : Murray Forman
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
That S The Joint written by Murray Forman and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Hip-hop categories.
Spanning 25 years of serious writing on hip-hop by noted scholars and mainstream journalists, this comprehensive anthology includes observations and critiques on groundbreaking hip-hop recordings.