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“We gon be alright:” containment, creativity, and the birth of hip-hop
cultural geographies ( IF 1.786 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-22 , DOI: 10.1177/14744740211003653
Rashad Shabazz 1
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In the United States, Black cultural production is bound up with geographic containment, restrictions on mobility, and racial segregation. Jazz, hip-hop, house music, and the Minneapolis Sound (the music associated with late recording artist, Prince) were mid-wifed by some of the most repressive systems of geographic order. Indeed, containment and creativity, geographies of trouble and hope are hallmarks of Black cultural production. This dialectic calls into question the belief that art can only be created in conducive or untroubled spaces. Hip-hop provides a perfect case study to challenge this assumption. Born in the Bronx, NY in the early 1970’s, hip-hop was a cultural movement that emerged in against the backdrop of racial and economic segregation, mass incarceration, and joblessness. Yet, hop-hop “danced its way of these constrictions” and created geographies of hope. In doing this, hip-hop shows that Black cultural production and the radical imagination from which it springs, have the capacity to create counter-spatial imaginaries that challenge those under which it was produced. To that end, this article addresses the relationship between creativity and containment. Through linking the rise of carceral power, racially restrictive housing practices, a deindustrializing economy, and expanding prison populations with the hip-hop, I demonstrate the dialectic between systematic spatial containment of poor and working-class Black and Latinx Americans and the role it played in creation of the world’s most powerful cultural force.



中文翻译:

“我们会没事的:”遏制力,创造力和嘻哈音乐的诞生

在美国,黑人文化生产与地理围堵,行动不便和种族隔离密切相关。爵士乐,嘻哈音乐,家庭音乐和明尼阿波利斯之声(与已故唱片艺术家王子相关的音乐)受到某些最压抑的地理秩序系统的影响。确实,遏制和创造力,麻烦和希望的地域是黑人文化生产的标志。这种辩证法使人们对以下观点提出了质疑:艺术只能在有益或无障碍的空间中创造。嘻哈提供了一个完美的案例研究来挑战这一假设。嘻哈音乐起源于1970年代初期的纽约州布朗克斯市,是一种文化运动,它是在种族和经济隔离,大规模监禁和失业的背景下兴起的。然而,嘻哈音乐“跳出了这些束缚的方式”,并创造了希望的地域。在此过程中,嘻哈音乐表明黑人文化生产及其产生的激进想象力具有创造反空间想象力的​​能力,这些想象力对生产它的人提出了挑战。为此,本文讨论了创造力和包容性之间的关系。通过将嘻哈能力的提高,种族限制的住房习惯,去工业化的经济以及监狱人口的增加与嘻哈活动联系起来,我展示了穷人和工人阶级的黑人和拉丁裔美国人在系统的空间限制与它所扮演的角色之间的辩证法创造了世界上最强大的文化力量。嘻哈音乐表明,黑人文化的产生及其激进的想象力,具有创造反空间想象力的​​能力,这些想象力对产生这种想象力的人提出了挑战。为此,本文讨论了创造力和包容性之间的关系。通过将嘻哈能力的提高,种族限制的住房习惯,去工业化的经济以及监狱人口的增加与嘻哈活动联系起来,我展示了穷人和工人阶级的黑人和拉丁裔美国人在系统的空间限制与它所扮演的角色之间的辩证法创造了世界上最强大的文化力量。嘻哈音乐表明,黑人文化的产生及其激进的想象力,具有创造反空间想象力的​​能力,这些想象力对产生这种想象力的人提出了挑战。为此,本文讨论了创造力和包容性之间的关系。通过将嘻哈能力的提高,种族限制的住房习惯,去工业化的经济以及监狱人口的增加与嘻哈活动联系起来,我展示了穷人和工人阶级的黑人和拉丁裔美国人在系统的空间限制与它所扮演的角色之间的辩证法创造了世界上最强大的文化力量。本文介绍了创造力和遏制力之间的关系。通过将嘻哈能力的提高,种族限制的住房习惯,去工业化的经济以及监狱人口的增加与嘻哈活动联系起来,我展示了穷人和工人阶级的黑人和拉丁裔美国人在系统的空间限制与它所扮演的角色之间的辩证法创造了世界上最强大的文化力量。本文介绍了创造力和遏制力之间的关系。通过将嘻哈能力的提高,种族限制的住房习惯,去工业化的经济以及监狱人口的增加与嘻哈活动联系起来,我展示了穷人和工人阶级的黑人和拉丁裔美国人在系统的空间限制与它所扮演的角色之间的辩证法创造了世界上最强大的文化力量。

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