Dr Jo Metcalf J.Metcalf@hull.ac.uk
Editor
Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player : Ice-T and the politics of black cultural production
Contributors
Will Turner
Editor
Abstract
© Josephine Metcalf and Will Turner and the contributors 2014. 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, and 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’.
Citation
Metcalf, J., & Turner, W. (Eds.). (2014). Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player : Ice-T and the politics of black cultural production. Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603612
Book Type | Edited Book |
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Online Publication Date | Apr 8, 2016 |
Publication Date | Jun 6, 2014 |
Publisher | Ashgate |
Pages | 1-339 |
Book Title | Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production |
ISBN | 9781317071501; 9781472418357; 9781472434319 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603612 |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/428809 |
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