{"product_id":"hip-hop-heresies-queer-aesthetics-in-new-york-city-9781479808199","title":"Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eHip Hop Heresies is a book that explores the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop, focusing on how hip hop cultural production in New York City from the 1970s through the early twenty-first century produced film, visual art, and music that offer queer articulations of race, gender, and sexuality. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 224 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 23 May 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2022-2023 New York City Book Awards!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSPECIAL MENTION, 2023 IASPM Book Prize, given by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED, 2023 Ralph J. Gleason Book Award, given by the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame\/Clive Davis Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHip Hop Heresies  centers New York City as a space where vibrant queer, Black, and hip hop worlds collide and bond in dance clubs, schools, roller rinks, basketball courts, subways, and movie houses. Using this cultural nexus as the stage, Shanté Paradigm Smalls attends to the ways that hip hop cultural production in New York City from the 1970s through the early twenty-first century produced film, visual art, and music that offer queer articulations of race, gender, and sexuality. To illustrate New York City as a place of experimental aesthetic collaboration, Smalls brings four cultural moments to the forefront:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe life and work of the gay Chinese American visual and graffiti artist Martin Wong, who brokered the relationship between New York City graffiti artists and gallery and museum spaces;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Brooklyn-based rapper-singer-writer-producer Jean Grae, one of the most prolific and underrated emcees of the last two decades;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe iconic 1980s film  The Last Dragon , which exemplifies the experimental and queer Black masculinity possible in early formal hip hop culture; and finally queer- and trans-identified hip hop artists and groups like BQE, Deepdickollective, and Hanifah Walidah, and the documentary  Pick Up the Mic .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHip Hop Heresies  transforms the landscape of hip hop scholarship, Black studies, and queer studies by bringing together these fields through the hermeneutic of aesthetics. Providing a guidepost for future scholarship on queer, trans, and Black aesthetics, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of culture, identity, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 229 x 152 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781479808199\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shante Paradigm Smalls","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44095686672634,"sku":"9781479808199","price":63.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1654872434825_book.jpg?v=1655411936","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/hip-hop-heresies-queer-aesthetics-in-new-york-city-9781479808199","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}