Phallic/ies and Hi(s)stories: Masculinity and the Black Nationalist Tradition, From Slave Spirituals to Rap Music

Abstract

170 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999.Therefore through an analysis of both lyrics and texts, "Phallic/ies and His(s)tories: Masculinity and the Black Nationalist Tradition, from Slave Spirituals to Rap Music" traces the unique---and ironic---survival and transformation of a literary political tradition initiated by the male members of an early nineteenth-century urban Black bourgeoisie into a politicized form of oral expression invented by the male members of a late twentieth-century urban Black "underclass."U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD