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.

XREF: Connects to broader discussions of finance capital shaping culture and media industries.

Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, loc. 52