An OutKast Reader – Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South Bradley

An OutKast ReaderEssays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South\nAuthor(s): Regina N. Bradley, Fredara Hadley, Michelle Hite, Langston C. Wilkins, Melissa Brown, Kaila Story, Birgitta J. Johnson, Charlie Braxton, James E. Ford III, Reynaldo Anderson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Georgia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Georgia Press\nISBN-13: 9780820360157, 978-0820360157\nSynopsis\nOutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past twenty-five years. Through Grammy-winning albums, music videos, feature films, theatrical performances, and fashion, Andr Andr 3000 Benjamin and Antwan Big Boi Patton have articulated a vision of postmodern, postcivil rights southern identity that combines the roots of funk, psychedelia, haute couture, R, faith and spirituality, and Afrofuturism into a style all its own. This postmodern southern aesthetic, largely promulgated and disse.