This work, Bradley argues, helps define new cultural possibilities for black southerners who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s and have used hip-hop culture to buffer themselves from the historical narratives and expectations of the civil rights era.

Bradley, Outkast's work is the touchstone, a blend of funk, gospel, and hip-hop developed in conjunction with the work of other culture creators-including T.I., Kiese Laymon, and Jesmyn Ward. This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a postвЂ“civil rights generation. Morris, Howard Ramsby II, Reynaldo Anderson, and Ruth Nicole Brown.Д¬LICK HERE TO GET BOOK Book Chronicling Stankonia Description/Summary: The volume includes a who's who of hip-hop studies and African American studies scholarship, including Charlie Braxton, Susana M. Divided into sections on regional influences, gender, and visuality, the essays collectively offer a vision of OutKast as a key shaper of conceptions of the twenty-first-century South, expanding that vision beyond long-held archetypes and cultural signifiers. An OutKast Reader, then, takes the group's aesthetic as a lens through which readers can understand and explore contemporary issues of Blackness, gender, urbanism, southern aesthetics, and southern studies more generally. This postmodern southern aesthetic, largely promulgated and disseminated by OutKast and its collaborators, is now so prevalent in mainstream American culture (neither BeyoncГ© Knowles's ?Formation? nor Joss Whedon's sci-fi /western mashup Firefly could exist without OutKast's collage aesthetic) that we rarely consider how challenging and experimental it actually is to create a new southern aesthetic. Through Grammy-winning albums, music videos, feature films, theatrical performances, and fashion, AndrГ© ?AndrГ© 3000? Benjamin and Antwan ?Big Boi? Patton have articulated a vision of postmodern, post-civil rights southern identity that combines the roots of funk, psychedelia, haute couture, R&B, faith and spirituality, and Afrofuturism into a style all its own.

OutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past twenty-five years. CLICK HERE TO GET BOOK Book An OutKast Reader Description/Summary:

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