Book: I Bet You Won't Get Crunk! The Performative Resistance of Atlanta Hip-Hop Party Music, Kevin C. Holt
I Bet You Won't Get Crunk!
The Performative Resistance of Atlanta Hip-Hop Party Music
Kevin C. Holt
Book Description:
I Bet You Won't Get Crunk! analyzes Atlanta's hip-hop party culture framed through Atlanta's history of aggressively surveilling and silencing black youth. In response to patterns of targeted policing, Atlanta's black youth created party cultures and music that explicitly focused on being loud and taking up space, yielding a kind of resistance through performance and participation. This resistance manifested in the city's roller rink culture, in a signature hip-hop dance style known as yeeking, in the public impositions of Freaknik, and in collective catharsis of getting crunk. By emphasizing semiotic analyses of gestures, images, dances, and performance choices, Kevin C. Holt makes a case for the political interventions of party culture. In doing so, I Bet You Won't Get Crunk! offers analytical tools that elucidate non-lyrical meaning within hip-hop music broadly and the underlying meaning of crunk music specifically, pushing back against early 21st century moral panics that considered crunk and its connected party culture vacuous and, by extension, a threat to hip-hop's political potency.
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