Hip hop evolved into the defining cultural product of the financial era

Evidence

Chapter 5, “Derivative Music and Speculative Hip Hop,” shifts to textual analysis in order to analyze the impact this financialization has on the formal characteristics of culture produced in this era. The first of three case studies is hip hop, a once radical form that has become the quintessential cultural product of the financial era: entrepreneurial, speculative, referential, intermedial, and derivative, in many senses of the word. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 52

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how a radical art form becomes the ideal carrier of finance’s aesthetic values — entrepreneurialism, speculation, referentiality — and what that says about co-optation.