Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop

This book assembles innovative and provocative voices in hip-hop to assess the future of hip-hop, one of the most important cultural movement of our time.

Hip-hop, a transformative art movement of the past two decades, has impacted theater, dance, performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography, painting, and film. Editor Jeff Chang assembles innovative voices to assess this cultural movement. The anthology includes essays by Chang, Greg Tate, Mark Anthony Neal, Brian “B+” Cross, and Vijay Prashad on hip-hop aesthetics, gender relations, “street lit” and “lit hop,” and how hip-hop defined a generation.Roundtable discussions and essays explore hip-hop’s impact on theater, graphic design, documentary film, video, photography, and the visual arts.