Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap Crisis (Theorizing African American Music) - Softcover

Lewis, Heidi R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0197773826 ISBN 13: 9780197773826

Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 2025

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In Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap “Crisis,” author Heidi R. Lewis interrogates the ways Mumble Rap has been subjugated within real Hip Hop. Many critics claim mumble rappers are ignorant about Hip Hop history, disrespectful toward their Hip Hop elders, too similar, unskilled, prone to rapping about nonsense, and too feminine. In contrast, Lewis argues Mumble Rap is real Hip Hop. To do so, she examines Mumble Rap's congruence with oft forgotten or subjugated Hip Hop cornerstones like illegibility, melody, the DJ, and the subgenre, as well as the ways most mumble rappers practice citational and collaborative politics congruent with real Hip Hop. Following an analysis of the Mumble Rap sound, Lewis explains the subgenre's subjugation by situating it as southern and examining the ways it challenges real Hip Hop masculinity norms.

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Heidi R. Lewis is Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College. Lewis' first book, In Audre's Footsteps: Transnational Kitchen Table Talk examines how women of color resist subjugation and do solidarity. She has also published in Womanism Rising, Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies II, The Cultural Impact of Kanye West, the Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, and Indivisible: Alliances against Racism and contributed to NewBlackMan, NPR, and Bitch.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0197773826
• ISBN 13: 9780197773826
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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