03491nam 2200673Ka 450 991098799350332120250703100016.79781478027485electronic book(CKB)5700000000512279(ODN)ODN0010771401(EXLCZ)99570000000051227920240620d2024 uy 0engurcn|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDeathlife Hip hop and thanatological narrations of blackness. /Anthony B Pinn2024Durham :Duke University Press,2024.1 online resource1-4780-9382-X Print version: Pinn, Anthony B. Deathlife. Durham : Duke University Press, 2024 9781478025412 9781478020608 (DLC) 2023015283 (OCoLC)1381181440 Includes bibliographical references and index.Paradigms of Death (or Life) and Deathlife -- Signifying Deathlife -- The Orphic Hustler -- The Antihero -- Consuming Deathlife -- Bacchic Intent -- Zombic Hunger -- Two Types of Melancholia.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.Rap (Music)Religious aspectsRap (Music)Social aspectsHip-hopInfluenceAfrican AmericansSongs and musicSocial aspectsAfrican AmericansRace identityDeath in musicLifeSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American StudiesbisacshAfrican AmericansRace identityfastDeath in musicfastHip-hopInfluencefastLifefastRap (Music)Social aspectsfastRap (Music)Religious aspects.Rap (Music)Social aspects.Hip-hopInfluence.African AmericansSongs and musicSocial aspects.African AmericansRace identity.Death in music.Life.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.African AmericansRace identity.Death in music.Hip-hopInfluence.Life.Rap (Music)Social aspects.782.421649MUS031000REL000000SOC001000bisacshPinn Anthony B872740BOOK9910987993503321Deathlife4345697UNINA