How does the musical Hamilton show intertextuality through Hip-Hop?

Hamilton, a musical produced by Jeffrey Seller and written by Lin Manuel-Miranda in 2015, combines history and modern day Hip-Hop to tell the story surrounding the life of the lesser known founding father Alexander Hamilton. Throughout this essay I am going to be exploring how Hamilton coveys elements of Postmodernism, specifically intertextuality. To enhance my critical thinking I have used sources such as Understand Postmodernism: Teach Yourself by Glenn Ward (2010) and An introduction to theories of Popular Culture 2nd edition by Dominic Strinati (1995). Both of these books allowed me to grasp a better understanding of the Post Modernist era, how intertextuality comes under the bracket of Postmodernism and how it applies to Hamilton. The term postmodernism came around in the 1970s as a backlash against modernism ‘Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism.’ (McDonald, 2010) Modernism can be defined as having an emphasis on the new and rejection of the past, the movement focuses ...