Listening to the video: Hip Hop videography and Rural Black Aesthetics

Miles, Corey J.

doi:10.1080/09502386.2022.2056218

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“…Nothing quite fits according to design. Layered through visuals of the spatial remnants of slavery (Miles, 2022a), the sounds of the archive can also become visible through our bodies. In other words, the body can make the archive visible, transforming statements into events and things into words (Lepecki, 2010).…”

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“…Like Simone, Corey Miles (2022a) discusses the spectrality of sound and the need to “listen to images.” Through an ethnographic investigation of Hip Hop aesthetics and visuals in North Carolina, specifically the 252-area code, Miles considers the ways that local identities are expressed, inhabited, imagined, and transformed. In a conversation with the Hip Hop videographer, TDot, he says to Miles, “As an artist your brand is all you have.…”

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The First Time I Heard: Black Feminist Approaches to Hip Hop Methodologies

Seth

2023

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Pulse and rhythm are found in our heartbeats, our breaths, and our physical movements. Pitch and tone give our voices distinct expressive and communicative qualities that serve as articulations of our relationship to space and time. Sound constantly surrounds us, embeds us, and embraces us. Yet, in the academy, conversations on Hip Hop as a field of study tend to focus almost exclusively on lyrical analyses. We do not have to completely abandon this mode of engagement, but we seem to forget that Hip Hop is not simply about empirics or measurement. And so, this paper seeks to re-think, re-consider, and re-articulate how we theorize Hip Hop—its politics, its culture, and its ways of being—by attending to the vibrations in the air, nonlexical expressions, and the practices of looking and listening. Drawing from Black feminist studies as well as the methods of ethnography, autobiography, and social and oral history, I discuss the interiority of sound, the contexts of reception, and the sets of relations that exist between sonic phenomena. I argue that these creative approaches not only compel us to ask better questions about cultural moments but are foundational to understanding that Hip Hop is not just rap music; it is a practice, process, and lived experience.

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Section: Multisensorial Methodologies: Listening and Re-listening As ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Multisensorial Methodologies: Listening and Re-listening As ...mentioning

confidence: 99%