Trap Music Aesthetics: Rural Hip-Hop and the Construction of Personhood

Corey Miles, a diversity fellow at Augustana, will present "Trap Music Aesthetics: Rural Hip-Hop and the Construction of Personhood."

Description: Rural black women and men have used hip-hop to construct black identity and subjectivity outside of major institutions in America. It suggests that rural black Americans use the term vibe to make aesthetic and affective judgments of individuals, behaviors, and institutions when the traditional English language is not nuanced enough to capture the essence of black experiences. Furthermore, it suggests that style is used as a performative tool to construct notions of black womanhood and masculinity.