Keeping It Unreal: Rap, Racecraft, and MF Doom

Focusing on the masked rapper MF Doom, this article uses Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields’s concept of “racecraft” to theorize how the insidious fiction called “race” shapes and reshapes popular “Black” music. Rap is a mode of racecraft that speculatively binds or “crafts” historical musical fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: J. Jesse Ramírez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-12-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
rap
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/1/5