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Author Bradley, Regina N., 1984- author.

Title Chronicling Stankonia : the rise of the hip-hop South / Regina N. Bradley.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  782.4216 BRADLEY    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 121 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: The mountaintop ain't flat -- The demo tape ain't nobody wanna hear -- Spelling out the work -- Re-imagining slavery in the hip-hop imagination -- Still ain't forgave myself -- A final note: The South still got something to say.
Summary "Chronicling Stankonia situates hip hop as an intervention in constructing post-Civil Rights black identities and cultural discourse. For southern blacks, the past is often restricted to three recognizable historical moments - the Antebellum Era, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement. Aside from the deeply traumatic experience of these periods of history, they also serve as cornerstones of validating and recognizing southern blacks' experiences. However, the challenge for post-Civil Rights generations of southern blacks is speaking truth to power when their truths depart the trajectory of what was considered power in the past. Chronicling Stankonia updates the black South using hip hop as an agent to reflect multiple intersections of time, race, and southernness in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Part of southern hip hop culture's truth remains attached to the past but its power is grounded in the fact that younger southerners use hip hop to embrace the possibility of multiple Souths, multiple narratives, and multiple entry points into contemporary southern black identities"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- Southern States.
Rap (Music) -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
Hip-hop -- Southern States.
African Americans -- Race identity -- Southern States.
OutKast (Musical group)
OutKast (Musical group) (OCoLC)fst00744363
African Americans -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst00799666
Hip-hop. (OCoLC)fst00957237
Rap (Music) (OCoLC)fst01089951
Rap (Music) -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01089957
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Music criticism and reviews.
ISBN 9781469661957 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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9781469661964 (paperback : alkaline paper)
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9781469661971 (ebook)
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