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The underground is a multi-faceted concept in African American culture. Peterson uses Richard Wright, KRS-One, Thelonius Monk, and the tradition of the Underground Railroad to explore the manifestations and the attributes of the underground within the context of a more panoramic picture of African American expressivity within hip-hop. ** Review "By applying the interpretive sensibility of hip-hop culture to some of the most significant questions in contemporary arts and letters, James Braxton Peterson challenges received wisdom and replaces it with a more sophisticated, more practical, and ultimately more honest picture of America, itself. The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture firmly establishes Peterson's place in the vanguard of modern cultural scholarship." - Joseph Schloss, author of Making Beats: The Art of Sample Based Hip-Hop "This piece of scholarship by James Braxton Peterson provokes deep critical thought about Black culture, Black identity, Black authenticity and how these are navigated in public and private culture by interconnecting analyses of figurations of real cultural practices and experiences such as the Underground Railroad, underground hip-hop, v

Author

James Braxton Peterson

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137305244

Subjects

Sociology, Social_sciences