Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning

ISBN-13: 9781138541511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 380 str.

Christopher M. Driscoll; Monica R. Miller; Anthony B. Pinn

Opis

This book is the first to provide an interdisciplinary academic analysis of the impact of Kendrick Lamar’s corpus. Starting with Section 80 and ending on DAMN., it deals with each of Lamar’s four major projects.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: K.Dotting the American Cultural Landscape with Black Meaning- Anthony B. Pinn and Christopher M. Driscoll; Part I: Section.80 (2011); 1 Kendrick Lamar’s Section.80: Reagan Era Blues- Ralph Bristout; 2 Can I be Both?: Blackness and the Negotiation of Binary Categories in Kendrick Lamar’s Section.80- Margarita Simon Guillory; 3 Hol’ Up: Post-Civil Rights Black Theology within Kendrick Lamar’s Section.80 Album - Daniel White Hodge; 4 Sensibility in Section.80: Kendrick Lamar’s Poetics of Problems- Michael L. Thomas; Part II: good kid, m.A.A.d. city (2012); 5 The 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 good kid, m.A.A.d. city- Rob Peach; 7 ‘Black Meaning’ Out of Urban Mud: good kid, m.A.A.d city as Compton Griot-Riff at the Crossroads of Climate-Apocalypse- James W. Perkinson; 8 Rap as Ragnarök: Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, and the Value of Competition- Christopher M. Driscoll: Part III: To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) ; 9 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; Part IV: DAMN. (2017); 13 ‘Real Nigga Conditions’: Kendrick Lamar, Grotesque Realism, and the Open Body-Anthony B. Pinn; 14 DAMNed to the Earth: Kendrick Lamar, De/colonial Violence,and Earthbound Salvation- Ben Lewellyn-Taylor and Melanie C. Jones; 15 Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. as an Aesthetic Genealogy- 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 DAMN.- André E. Key; 18 Hebrew Israelite Covenantal Theology and Kendrick Lamar’s Constructive Project in DAMN.- Spencer Dew; Conclusion: KENosis: The Meaning of Kendrick Lamar- Monica R. Miller; References ; Contributors