- Description
- 229 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Paradigms of Death (or Life) and Deathlife -- Signifying Deathlife -- The Orphic Hustler -- The Antihero -- Consuming Deathlife -- Bacchic Intent -- Zombic Hunger -- Two Types of Melancholia.
- ISBN
- 9781478025412
- 1478025417
- 9781478020608
- 1478020601
- 9781478027485 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781478093824 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023015283
- OCLC
- YBP 2023015283
- Author
Pinn, Anthony B., author.
- Title
Deathlife : Hip Hop and thanatological narrations of blackness / Anthony B. Pinn.
- Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
Online version: Pinn, Anthony B. Deathlife Durham : Duke University Press, 2024 9781478027485 (DLC) 2023015284