LEADER 03323nam 2200637z- 450 001 9910886974003321 005 20241202221847.0 010 $a9781478027485$belectronic book 035 $a(CKB)5700000000512279 035 $a(EXLCZ)995700000000512279 100 $a20240130c2024uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeathlife $eHip Hop and thanatological narrations of blackness /$fAnthony B. Pinn 210 $cDuke University Press 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (229 pages) 311 $a1-4780-9382-X 311 08$aPrint version: Pinn, Anthony B. Deathlife. Durham : Duke University Press, 2024 9781478025412 9781478020608 (DLC) 2023015283 (OCoLC)1381181440 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aParadigms of Death (or Life) and Deathlife -- Signifying Deathlife -- The Orphic Hustler -- The Antihero -- Consuming Deathlife -- Bacchic Intent -- Zombic Hunger -- Two Types of Melancholia. 330 $a"Drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks including Afropessimism and Black Moralism, Deathlife uses Hip Hop to explore the ways in which Blackness serves as a framework defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Anthony B. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the ability to distinguish death and life-to bracket off death for the sake of life. And this ability is produced and safeguarded through the construction of Blackness as death. Over against this effort to distinguish life and death, what hip hop demonstrates is the manner in which death and life are interconnected and dependent in such a way as to render them indistinguishable. Drawing on artists like Kendrick Lamar, Tyler the Creator, and Jay-Z, Deathlife argues that hip hop recognizes this dependency and explores its nature and meaning"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aRap (Music)$xReligious aspects 606 $aRap (Music)$xSocial aspects 606 $aHip-hop$xInfluence 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSongs and music$xSocial aspects 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity 606 $aDeath in music 606 $aLife 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies$2bisacsh 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$2fast 606 $aDeath in music$2fast 606 $aHip-hop$xInfluence$2fast 606 $aLife$2fast 606 $aRap (Music)$xSocial aspects$2fast 615 0$aRap (Music)$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aRap (Music)$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aHip-hop$xInfluence. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSongs and music$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity. 615 0$aDeath in music. 615 0$aLife. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. 615 7$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity 615 7$aDeath in music 615 7$aHip-hop$xInfluence 615 7$aLife 615 7$aRap (Music)$xSocial aspects 676 $a782.421649 700 $aPinn$b Anthony B.$0872740 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910886974003321 996 $aDeathlife$94295954 997 $aUNINA