Ebook: Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production
Author: Josephine Metcalf Will Turner
- Tags: Rap Musical Genres Music Arts Photography Hip Hop Composers Musicians Literature Biographies Memoirs Ethnic National African American Black Australian Chinese Hispanic Latino Irish Japanese Jewish Native Scandinavian Nationalism Ideologies Doctrines Politics Government Social Sciences Asian International World Performing Humanities New Used Rental Textbooks Specialty Boutique Political Science
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
- Edition: New edition
- Language: English
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This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience.Over the past three decades, African Americans have faced a number of new challenges brought about by changes in the political, economic and social structure of America. Furthermore, this vastly changed social landscape has produced a number of resonant pop-cultural trends that have proved to be both innovative and admired on the one hand, and contentious and divisive on the other.Ice-T's iconic and multifarious career maps these shifts. This is the first book that, taken as a whole, looks at a black cultural icon's manipulation of (or manipulation by?) so many different forms simultaneously. The result is a fascinating series of tensions arising from Ice-T's ability to inhabit conflicting pop-cultural roles including: 'hardcore' gangsta rapper and dedicated philanthropist; author of controversial song Cop Killer and network television cop; self-proclaimed 'pimp' and reality television house husband. As the essays in this collection detail, Ice-T's chameleonic public image consistently tests the accepted parameters of black cultural production, and in doing so illuminates the contradictions of a society erroneously dubbed 'post-racial'.
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