Building on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Alexander Weheliye, Lester Spence, LH Stallings, and a broad swath of queer and critical race theory, Posthuman Rap listens for the ways contemporary rap maps an existence outside the traditional boundaries of what it means to be human.
CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction Pre-Echo: Monsters in the Mix
Chapter 1: Posthuman: Completely Outside Our Present Conception of What it is to be Human
Chapter 2: Cheap and Easy Radicalism: The Legible Politics of Kendrick Lamar
Chapter 3: Sonic Blackness and the Illegibility of Trap Irony
Chapter 4: Party Politics: Rae Sremmurd's Club as Posthuman Vestibule
Epilogue: Posthuman Sub-Bass
Bibliography
Index