Pedagogy and Performance in Black Popular Culture  

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Dimitriadis, Greg

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies vol. 1 no. 1 (Feb. 2001), page 24-35.
Topik: Rap; the popular; tout court
Fulltext: 24CS11.pdf (85.84KB)

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Rap artists, in the wake of rap's popular crossover success in the early 1980s, explicitly defined rap as a pedagogical idiom. Lyrics became more complex while epithets of poet and artist proliferated. All of this came as a parallel phenomenon to the emergence of a discourse about rap and its histories and traditions—a discourse that would have seemed anomalous early on. Drawing on theory and research in performance studies, this article critiques efforts to place rap into ready-made historical trajectories (e.g., Afrocentric or postmodern ones), and focuses on the discourse that rap artists themselves created or performed about rap music and its history at this critical juncture. In redefining notions of "the popular," rap established itself as a kind of alternative curriculum, raising key questions about who needs to be educating whom, and why.

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