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Slavenburg, Gioia (2019)

Keeping It Real? “Post-Blackness” and Hip Hop in the Nineties

Master thesis | North American Studies (MA)

This thesis aims explore the role of “post-blackness” in the development of hip hop in the nineties, mainly through newspaper articles and existing interviews with hip hop artists. This thesis contends that although black artists and the media partially show a “post-black” perception of hip hop in the nineties, this perception is also problematized because hip hop in the nineties was still rooted deeply in the notion of “black authenticity.”

Post-blackness

Hip hop

Nineties

Author

Slavenburg, Gioia

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Pargas, D.A.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en