1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910987993503321

Autore

Pinn Anthony B

Titolo

Deathlife : Hip hop and thanatological narrations of blackness. / / Anthony B Pinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2024

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2024

ISBN

9781478027485

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

MUS031000REL000000SOC001000

Disciplina

782.421649

Soggetti

Rap (Music) - Religious aspects

Rap (Music) - Social aspects

Hip-hop - Influence

African Americans - Songs and music - Social aspects

African Americans - Race identity

Death in music

Life

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Paradigms of Death (or Life) and Deathlife -- Signifying Deathlife -- The Orphic Hustler -- The Antihero -- Consuming Deathlife -- Bacchic Intent -- Zombic Hunger -- Two Types of Melancholia.

Sommario/riassunto

In Deathlife , Anthony B. Pinn analyzes hip hop to explore how Blackness serves as a framework for defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the right to distinguish death from life. This distinction is produced and maintained through the construction of Blackness as deathlife . Drawing on Afropessimism and Black moralism, Pinn theorizes deathlife as a technology of whiteness that projects whites' anxieties about the end of their lives onto the Black other. Examining the music of Jay-Z; Kendrick Lamar; Tyler, the Creator; and others, Pinn shows how hip hop configures the interconnection and dependence between death and life



in such a way that death and life become indistinguishable. In so doing, Pinn demonstrates that hip hop presents an alternative to deathlife that challenges the white supremacist definitions of Blackness and anti-Blackness more generally.