Hip Hop, Hegel, and the Art of EmancipationThis book argues that Hip Hops early history in the South Bronx charts a course remarkably similar to the conceptual history of artistic creation presented in Hegels Lectures on Aesthetics. It contends that the resonances between Hegels account of the trajectory of art in general, and the historical shifts in the particular culture of Hip Hop, are both numerous and substantial enough to make us re think not only the nature and import of Hegels