Derrick Darby

Hip-Hop and Philosophy

Rhyme 2 Reason

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Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What's the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a black thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit - and often explicit - in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past. The book shows that rap classics by Lauryn Hill, OutKast, and the Notorious B.I.G. can help uncover the meanings of love articulated in Plato's Symposium; that Rakim, 2Pac, and Nas… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Shelby, Tommie / Irwin, William (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-8126-9779-7
EAN: 9780812697797
Produktnummer: 21803906
Verlag: Open Court
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 453 KB

Über den Autor

Derrick Darby was raised in Queensbridge Housing Projects, home to some of hip-hop's greatest talents including hip-hop DJ, Marley Marl, Pioneering rap MC, Nas, and the dynamic rap duo Mobb Deep, and Prodigy and Havoc. He is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University.Tommie Shelby is currently John L. Loed Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.