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Book of rhymes : the poetics of hip hop
\"Rap may be the most revolutionary development in poetry over the past forty years, yet its originality is hidden in plain sight. Often overshadowed by the beat, bluster, and hype surrounding the music, lyrics are the heart of hip hop. Book of Rhymes explores America's least-understood poets by unpacking their complex craft and according them the respect they deserve as lyricists. Examining the language and techniques of hip hop's most memorable artists, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that a new world of rhythm and rhyme awaits us if we put aside preconceptions and encounter rap with new ears and new eyes. Updated to reflect nearly a decade of the genre's evolution, Book of Rhymes remains the definitive work on the poetry of hip hop\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Chronicling Stankonia
This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South,
probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern
identities for a post-civil rights generation. For scholar and
critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast's work is the touchstone, a blend
of funk, gospel, and hip-hop developed in conjunction with the work
of other culture creators-including T.I., Kiese Laymon, and Jesmyn
Ward. This work, Bradley argues, helps define new cultural
possibilities for black southerners who came of age in the 1980s
and 1990s and have used hip-hop culture to buffer themselves from
the historical narratives and expectations of the civil rights era.
Andre 3000, Big Boi, and a wider community of creators emerge as
founding theoreticians of the hip-hop South, framing a larger
question of how the region fits into not only hip-hop culture but
also contemporary American society as a whole. Chronicling
Stankonia reflects the ways that culture, race, and
southernness intersect in the late twentieth and early twenty-first
centuries. Although part of southern hip-hop culture remains
attached to the past, Bradley demonstrates how younger southerners
use the music to embrace the possibility of multiple Souths,
multiple narratives, and multiple points of entry to contemporary
southern black identity.
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The concise guide to hip-hop music : a fresh look at the art of hip-hop, from old-school beats to freestyle rap
\"In 1973, the music scene was forever changed by the emergence of hip-hop. Masterfully blending the rhythmic grooves of funk and soul with layered beats and chanted rhymes, artists such as DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash paved the way for an entire new genre and generation of musicians. In this comprehensive, accessible guide, Paul Edwards breaks down the difference between old school and new school, recaps the biggest influencers of the genre, and sets straight the myths and misconceptions of the artists and their music. Fans old and new alike will all learn something new about the history and development of hip-hop, from its inception up through the current day.\"--Back cover.
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Hip-Hop Archives
This book focuses on the culture and politics involved in building hip-hop archives. It addresses practical aspects, including methods of accumulation, curation, preservation, and digitization and critically analyzes institutional power, community engagement, urban economics, public access, and the ideological implications associated with hip-hop culture's enduring tensions with dominant social values.
The collection of essays are divided into four sections; Doing the Knowledge, Challenging Archival Forms, Beyond the Nation and Institutional Alignments: Interviews and Reflections. The book covers a range of official, unofficial, DIY and community archives and collections and features chapters by scholar practitioners, educators and curators.
A wide swath of hip-hop culture is featured in the book, including a focus on dance, graffiti, clothing, and battle rap. The range of authors and their topics span countries in Asia, Europe, the Caribbean and North America.
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Australian Indigenous Hip Hop
This book investigates the discursive and performative strategies employed by Australian Indigenous rappers to make sense of the world and establish a position of authority over their identity and place in society. Focusing on the aesthetics, the language, and the performativity of Hip Hop, this book pays attention to the life stance, the philosophy, and the spiritual beliefs of Australian Indigenous Hip Hop artists as ‘glocal’ producers and consumers. With Hip Hop as its main point of analysis, the author investigates, interrogates, and challenges categories and preconceived ideas about the critical notions of authenticity, ‘Indigenous’ and dominant values, spiritual practices, and political activism. Maintaining the emphasis on the importance of adopting decolonizing research strategies, the author utilises qualitative and ethnographic methods of data collection, such as semi-structured interviews, informal conversations, participant observation, and fieldwork notes. Collaborators and participants shed light on some of the dynamics underlying their musical decisions and their view within discussions on representations of ‘Indigenous identity and politics’. Looking at the Indigenous rappers’ local and global aspirations, this study shows that, by counteracting hegemonic narratives through their unique stories, Indigenous rappers have utilised Hip Hop as an expressive means to empower themselves and their audiences, entertain, and revive their Elders’ culture in ways that are contextual to the society they live in.
Introduction: Culture on the Stage of History: The Past Is Present in ‘Indigenous Hip Hop’
Chapter 1: \"The Black from Down-Unda\": Contact Zones and Cultures of Black Resistance
Chapter 2: \"2 Black 2 Strong\": The Politics of Blackness and Identification
Chapter 3: ‘Indigenous Hip Hop’: The Politics of Identity and Representation
Chapter 4: \"Know Our True Identity\": Indigenous Articulations of Identity through Kin, Place, and Spirituality
Chapter 5: Hip Hop and Australian Indigenous Youth: New Modes of Political Participation
Conclusion: ‘Indigenous Hip Hop’: History in the making
\"Hip Hop outside of the U.S. North American context has been largely mute for far too long. Yet, Hip Hop remains a powerful force throughout the globe. What Minestrelli has provided here is a window into the strong and current culture of Hip Hop within Australian contexts. This study examines the related history of Hip Hop within an indigenous context and provides the reader with an area of Hip Hop that is developing and connected to rich roots. Minestrelli’s work stands to be a cornerstone text in the field of Hip Hop Studies.\" — Daniel White Hodge, North Park University, USA
Chiara Minestrelli holds a PhD in Australian Indigenous studies from Monash University (2015). She is visiting professor in the Africana Studies Program at Lehigh University. She has published on Australian Indigenous literature and Hip Hop and Australian Indigenous Hip Hop.
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What's good : notes on rap and language
\"What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis, a set of freewheeling liner notes, and a love letter to the most vital American art form of the last half century. Over a series of short chapters, each centered on a different lyric, Daniel Levin Becker considers how rap's use of language operates and evolves at levels ranging from the local (slang, rhyme) to the analytical (quotation, transcription) to the philosophical (morality, criticism, irony), celebrating the pleasures and perils of any attempt to decipher its meaning-making technologies. Ranging from Sugarhill Gang to UGK to Young M.A, Rakim to Rick Ross to Rae Sremmurd, Jay-Z to Drake to Snoop Dogg, What's Good reads with the momentum of a deftly curated mixtape, drawing you into the conversation and teaching you to read it as it goes. A book for committed hip-hop heads, curious neophytes, armchair linguists, and everyone in between\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Mark of Criminality
Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime”
became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and
rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a
lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of
hip-hop In
The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in
the War-on-Crime Era , Bryan J. McCann argues that gangsta
rap should be viewed as more than a damaging reinforcement of an
era’s worst racial stereotypes. Rather, he positions the
works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies
their work produced, squarely within the law-and-order politics
and popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s to reveal a profoundly
complex period in American history when the meanings of crime and
criminality were incredibly unstable. At the center of this
era—when politicians sought to prove their
“tough-on-crime” credentials—was the mark of
criminality, a set of discourses that labeled members of
predominantly poor, urban, and minority communities as threats to
the social order. Through their use of the mark of criminality,
public figures implemented extremely harsh penal polices that
have helped make the United States the world’s leading
jailer of its adult population. At the same time when politicians
like Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton and
television shows such as
COPS and
America’s Most Wanted perpetuated images of gang
and drug-filled ghettos, gangsta rap burst out of the hip-hop
nation, emanating mainly from the predominantly black
neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles. Groups like NWA and
solo artists (including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur)
became millionaires by marketing the very discourses political
and cultural leaders used to justify their war on crime. For
these artists, the mark of criminality was a source of power,
credibility, and revenue. By understanding gangsta rap as a
potent, if deeply imperfect, enactment of the mark of
criminality, we can better understand how crime is always a site
of struggle over meaning. Furthermore, by underscoring the nimble
rhetorical character of criminality, we can learn lessons that
may inform efforts to challenge our nation’s failed
policies of mass incarceration.
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