Abstract
This article observes several most significant rap albums of this decade within postmodern literature. Today rap culture ceased to be a sort of “outsider” in academic opinion, because of its influences on the culture and art innovations. We study albums as literary objects according to literary aesthetic theories and principles, display the main postmodern features they have, and analyze the role of rap poetry within postmodernism in general. The results suggest that rap poetry is postmodern not only musically, but also lyrically, as an object of literature. The rap music embodies all the postmodern traits and synthesizes them within the syntheses of music and literature and high art and pop culture.
Highlights
Many experts on rap consider Clive Campbel the father of rap music
Today rap culture ceased to be a sort of “outsider” in academic opinion, because of its influences on the culture and art innovations. Nobody can ignore this fact: we listen to the rap music from many movies and videos, at the radio, in shopping centers – everywhere; hip hop culture became the most popular subculture of young generations, because it probably embodies an absolute freedom; even other musical genres, e.g, pop or rock music, feel the impact of rap
Darin Flynn, who is an associate professor of this course, says: “These songs crisscross sound, emotion, grammar and multiple metaphors in such a rich way”, “I think poetry is very much alive today, and it’s found in rap music, in the so-called gutter
Summary
Many experts on rap consider Clive Campbel (known as DJ Kool Herc) the father of rap music. Nobody can ignore this fact: we listen to the rap music from many movies and videos, at the radio, in shopping centers – everywhere; hip hop culture became the most popular subculture of young generations, because it probably embodies an absolute freedom; even other musical genres, e.g, pop or rock music, feel the impact of rap (just listen to Arctic Monkeys or Taylor Swift – anyone). It is extremely significant for hip-hop culture that in 2014, a course “Rap Linguistics” appeared at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta. He motivated that innovation by the following words: “I think Kendrick Lamar is the James Joyce of Hip Hop - i.e. in the complexity of his storytelling, in his knowledge of the canon, and in his continuing focus on the city of his upbringing - Compton” (Magazine of Hip-hop Music Criticism and News, 2016)
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