Chronicling Stankonia
The Rise of the Hip-Hop South
136 pages · Released 2021 · University of North Carolina Press
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This is an academic text by a university press analyzing hip-hop's role in shaping post-Civil Rights Black southern identity. It engages with complex historical and cultural themes including Jim Crow and Civil Rights trauma at an analytical level appropriate for high school and older readers interested in music history, African American studies, or cultural criticism. The book is not written for children and requires cultural and historical literacy to understand.
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"Chronicling Stankonia situates hip hop as an intervention in constructing post-Civil Rights black identities and cultural discourse. For southern blacks, the past is often restricted to three recognizable historical moments - the Antebellum Era, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement. Aside from the deeply traumatic... "Chronicling Stankonia situates hip hop as an intervention in constructing post-Civil Rights black identities and cultural discourse. For southern blacks, the past is often restricted to three recognizable historical moments - the Antebellum Era, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement. Aside from the deeply traumatic experience of these periods of history, they also serve as cornerstones of validating and recognizing southern blacks' experiences. However, the challenge for post-Civil Rights generations of southern blacks is speaking truth to power when their truths depart the trajectory of what was considered power in the past. Chronicling Stankonia updates the black South using hip hop as an agent to reflect multiple intersections of time, race, and southernness in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Part of southern hip hop culture's truth remains attached to the past but its power is grounded in the fact that younger southerners use hip hop to embrace the possibility of multiple Souths, multiple narratives, and multiple entry points into contemporary southern black identities"--
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ISBN 9781469661964 · University of North Carolina Press