Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-367) and index.
Contents:
Conclusion : KENosis : the meaning of Kendrick Lamar / Monica R. Miller. 18. 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. Singing experience in Section.80 : Kendrick Lamar's poetics of problems / Michael Thomas -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 a 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.
Summary:
"Kendrick Lamar has established himself at the forefront of contemporary Hip-Hop culture. Artistically adventurous and socially conscious, he has been unapologetic in using his art form, rap music, to address issues affecting black lives while also exploring subjects fundamental to the human experience, such as religious belief. This book is the first to provide an interdisciplinary academic analysis of the impact of Lamar's corpus. In doing so, it highlights how Lamar's music reflects current tensions that are keenly felt when dealing with the subjects of race, religion and politics. Starting with Section 80 and ending on DAMN., this book deals with each of Lamar's four major projects in turn. A panel of academics, journalists and hip-hop practitioners show how religion, in particular black spiritualties, take a front-and-centre role in his work. They also observe that his astute and biting thoughts on race and culture may come from an African American perspective, but many find something familiar in Lamar's lyrical testimony across great chasms of social and geographical difference. This sophisticated exploration of one of popular culture's emerging icons reveals a complex and multi-faceted engagement with religion, faith, race, art and culture. As such, it will be vital reading for anyone working in Religious, African American and Hip-Hop studies, as well as scholars of Music, Media and Popular Culture"--Provided by publisher.
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