Books-In-Print Talk “Sounding Race in Rap Songs” with Loren Kajikawa
May 5, 2015, 3:30 pm
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Books-in-Print talk
Sounding Race in Rap Songs
Loren Kajikawa, Musicology and Ethnomusicology
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
3:30 p.m., Humanities Center Conference Room (159 PLC)
As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness. Sounding Race in Rap Songs argues that rap music allows us not only to see but also to hear how mass-mediated culture engenders new understandings of race.
