{"product_id":"kendrick-lamar-and-the-making-of-black-meaning-9781032177168","title":"Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKendrick Lamar has established himself at the forefront of contemporary hip-hop culture. Artistically adventurous and socially conscious, he has been unapologetic in using his art form, rap music, to address issues affecting black lives while also exploring subjects fundamental to the human experience, such as religious belief. This book is the first to provide an interdisciplinary academic analysis of the impact of Lamarâs corpus. In doing so, it highlights how Lamarâs music reflects current tensions that are keenly felt when dealing with the subjects of race, religion and politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting with \u003ci\u003eSection 80\u003c\/i\u003e and ending with \u003ci\u003eDAMN.\u003c\/i\u003e, this book deals with each of Lamarâs four major projects in turn. A panel of academics, journalists and hip-hop practitioners show how religion, in particular black spiritualties, take a front-and-center role in his work. They also observe that his astute and biting thoughts on race and culture may come from an African American perspective, but many find something familiar in Lamarâs lyrical testimony across great chasms of social and geographical difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sophisticated exploration of one of popular cultureâs emerging icons reveals a complex and multi faceted engagement with religion, faith, race, art and culture. As such, it will be vital reading for anyone working in religious, African American and hip-hop studies, as well as scholars of music, media and popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements; Introduction: K.Dotting the American Cultural Landscape with Black Meaning- Anthony B. Pinn and Christopher M. Driscoll; \u003cb\u003ePart I: \u003ci\u003eSection.80 \u003c\/i\u003e(2011); 1 \u003c\/b\u003eKendrick Lamar’s \u003ci\u003eSection.80\u003c\/i\u003e: Reagan Era Blues- Ralph Bristout; 2 Can I be \u003ci\u003eBoth?\u003c\/i\u003e: Blackness and the Negotiation of Binary Categories in Kendrick Lamar’s \u003ci\u003eSection.80- \u003c\/i\u003eMargarita Simon Guillory; 3 Hol’ Up: Post-Civil Rights Black Theology within Kendrick Lamar’s \u003ci\u003eSection.80 \u003c\/i\u003eAlbum - Daniel White Hodge; 4 Sensibility in \u003ci\u003eSection.80\u003c\/i\u003e: Kendrick Lamar’s Poetics of Problems- Michael L. Thomas; \u003cb\u003ePart II: \u003ci\u003egood kid, m.A.A.d. city \u003c\/i\u003e(2012); 5 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Good, the m.A.A.d., and the Holy: Kendrick Lamar’s Meditations on Sin and Moral Agency in the Post-Gangsta Era- Juan M. Floyd-Thomas; 6 ‘Real is Responsibility’: Revelations in White through the Filter of Black Realness on \u003ci\u003egood kid, m.A.A.d. city- \u003c\/i\u003eRob Peach; 7 ‘Black Meaning’ Out of Urban Mud: \u003ci\u003egood kid, m.A.A.d city \u003c\/i\u003eas Compton \u003ci\u003eGriot-\u003c\/i\u003eRiff at the Crossroads of Climate-Apocalypse- James W. Perkinson; 8 Rap as Ragnarök: Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, and the Value of Competition- Christopher M. Driscoll: \u003cb\u003ePart III: \u003ci\u003eTo Pimp a Butterfly \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) ; \u003c\/b\u003e9 Can Dead Homies Speak? The Spirit and Flesh of Black Meaning- Monica R. Miller; 10 Loving [You] is Complicated: Black Self-Love and Affirmation in the Rap Music of Kendrick Lamar- Darrius D. Hills; 11 From ‘Blackness’ to Afrofuture to ‘Impasse’: The Figura of the Jimi Hendrix\/Richie Havens Identity Revolution as Faintly Evidenced by the work of Kendrick Lamar and More than a Head Nod to Lupe Fiasco- Jon Gill; 12 Beyond Flight and Containment: Kendrick Lamar, Black Study, and an Ethics of the Wound- Joseph Winters; \u003cb\u003ePart IV: \u003ci\u003eDAMN. \u003c\/i\u003e(2017); 13 \u003c\/b\u003e‘Real Nigga Conditions’: Kendrick Lamar, Grotesque Realism, and the Open Body-Anthony B. Pinn; 14 \u003ci\u003eDAMN\u003c\/i\u003eed to the Earth: Kendrick Lamar, De\/colonial Violence,and Earthbound Salvation- Ben Lewellyn-Taylor and Melanie C. Jones; 15 Kendrick Lamar’s \u003ci\u003eDAMN. as an Aesthetic Genealogy\u003c\/i\u003e- Dominik Hammer; 16 ‘I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar’s Spiritual Search, Hebrew Israelite Religion, and the Politics of Celebrity Encounter- Sam Kestenbaum: 17 Damnation, Identity, and Truth: Vocabularies of Suffering in Kendrick Lamar’s \u003ci\u003eDAMN.\u003c\/i\u003e- André E. Key; 18 Hebrew Israelite Covenantal Theology and Kendrick Lamar’s Constructive Project in \u003ci\u003eDAMN.\u003c\/i\u003e- Spencer Dew; Conclusion: KENosis\u003cb\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Meaning of Kendrick Lamar- Monica R. Miller; References ; Contributors \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084466352471,"sku":"9781032177168","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032177168.jpg?v=1762206461","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kendrick-lamar-and-the-making-of-black-meaning-9781032177168","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}