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Hip hop artist wordpress theme3/14/2024 ![]() Some important factors highlighted that helped define the Hip Hop vernacular include the art of signifying, the practice of sampling and the relevance of Black Vernacular English. Throughout this reading, Potter explores the interaction between postmodernism and the hip hop vernacular by siting the major components that enabled hip hop culture to thrive. Though it’s seemingly an abstract and vague concept, postmodernism set the stage for the emergence of the Hip Hop vernacular due to the production of a new wave of artistic expression from a people that were largely unrepresented and vastly undermined in pop culture throughout the history of America. ![]() In other words our reality-or what we know to be true-is not so much defined by our physical observations, but more so by our own personal interpretations of our experiences and the world around us. Bennet Schaber and Bill Readings further explain this concept in saying that “the postmodern marks a gap in the thinking of time that is constitutive of the modernist concept of time as succession or progress” (pg. Postmodernism is an abstract concept that reflects a departure in pop culture from previous representations of art and instead, emphasizes that true creative artistic expression is produced from ones’ interpretation of their own experiences and of the world around. The era of postmodernism-beginning during the latter decades of the 20 th century-is defined by great criticism and skepticism of past theological ideas and representations of what we thought to be true. Potter, explores and examines the idea of post modernism and the role Hip Hop and it’s vernacular plays in defining postmodern culture. “Hip Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism”, written by Russell A.
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