Hip Hop, Hegel, and the Art of Emancipation Let's Get Free /

• Main Author: Vernon, Jim (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Aesthetics.; Popular Culture.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Continental Philosophy.; Political philosophy.; Popular Culture .; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Political Philosophy.

This book argues that Hip Hop's early history in the South Bronx charts a course remarkably similar to the conceptual history of artistic creation presented in Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics. It contends that the resonances between Hegel's account of the trajectory of art in general,...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The South Bronx, or the 'State of Nature'
• Chapter 3: Graffiti Writing, or The Symbolic Stage Art
• Chapter 4: DJing and Breaking, or The Classical Stage of Art
• Chapter 5: MCing, or The Romantic Stage of Art
• Chapter 6: Knowledge, or From Art to Religion, Philosophy and Politics
• Chapter 7: Conclusion.