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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical, a musical adaptation of Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography, advanced the marriage of hip-hop and the musical that Miranda had introduced in his earlier show In the Heights. Employing hip-hop aesthetics and performance in an unparalleled yet effective way, Hamilton’s libretto is rendered in a spoken-word style, adhering to a hip-hop sing-songy style of delivery and embodied by a multi-ethnic cast with swaggering bodies and hip-hop-style moves. This essay examines the hip-hop aesthetic qualities of Miranda’s Hamilton, situating the show as a part of the continuum of hip-hop music, culture, and performance practice, and the manner by which the musical draws from real life hip-hop personae as templates for character-building via the art of rap as a storytelling device. Such analysis proves that hip-hop has been recharged with a new life, meaning, and context on the American musical stage. |
