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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019): The Salzburg Seminar and Its Legacies in American Studies

Intermedial and Transnational Hip Hop Life Writing

Submitted
December 4, 2019
Published
2019-12-30

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of this forum contribution:

The growing popularity of celebrity life writing and of memoirs which focus on the respective memoirist's specific social, professional, ethnic, or other context also spawned a large number of autobiographical publications by persons in the music industry. The field of musical autobiography is a recent development for which a niche in life-writing scholarship has only been carved out in the past decade. The growing number of autobiographical book publications as well as autobiographical self-representations in non-analog, non-printed, not primarily verbal formats raises the questions as to whether specific genres of hip-hop life writing have been evolving and as to the perspectives from which scholars should discuss them.

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