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SOUTHERN-PLAYALISTIC-HIPHOP-SPACESHIP-MUSIC

Young, Sade Marie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1305583004

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2011, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture.
This thesis explores how southern rap artists Lil Wayne and Andre 3000 use science fiction imagery to challenge narrow stereotypes and negative perceptions of what it means to be a black male hip hop artist while contributing to the genre, expanding the possibilities of hip hop‟s “commodified personas” (Bunten 2008). By focusing on southern hip hop artists, I shed light on the push/pull factors that these artists have had to transcend in order to authenticate themselves within the East Coast/West Coast binary of hip hop and to counter negative southern stereotypes. By embracing science fiction, alienation and Otherness, these artists change hip hop‟s geographical landscape of ghettocentricity to actively serve as a self-marketed cultural product. My research approach borrows from Stuart Hall‟s study of the traditions within the black repertoire in his article “What Is This Black‟ in Black Popular Culture?” (1992). He identifies the three main repertoires of black popular culture as an emphasis on style as the actual subject, the body as a canvas of representation and music as a focal point of the culture. These three categories work as the framework of my research and are used in tandem with explorations of the concepts alienation, Afro-futurism, and commodified personas as used applied to the analysis of the self-representations of Lil Wayne and Andre 3000.
Angela Nelson, PhD (Advisor)
Jeremy Wallach, PhD (Committee Member)
75 p.
African American Studies
Southern Hip Hop; Afro-futurism; Black science fiction, Black popular culture

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  • Young, S. M. (2011). SOUTHERN-PLAYALISTIC-HIPHOP-SPACESHIP-MUSIC [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1305583004

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Young, Sade. SOUTHERN-PLAYALISTIC-HIPHOP-SPACESHIP-MUSIC. 2011. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1305583004.

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  • Young, Sade. "SOUTHERN-PLAYALISTIC-HIPHOP-SPACESHIP-MUSIC." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1305583004

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