Street Conscious Rap
Author | : James G. Spady |
Publisher | : Umum/Loh |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James G. Spady |
Publisher | : Umum/Loh |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cheryl Lynette Keyes |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780252072017 |
In this first musicological history of rap music, Cheryl L. Keyes traces the genre's history from its roots in West African bardic traditions, the Jamaican dancehall tradition, and African American vernacular expressions to its permeation of the cultural mainstream as a major tenet of hip-hop lifestyle and culture. Rap music, according to Keyes, is a forum that addresses the political and economic disfranchisement of black youths and other groups, fosters ethnic pride, and displays culture values and aesthetics. Blending popular culture with folklore and ethnomusicology, Keyes offers a nuanced portrait of the artists, themes, and varying styles reflective of urban life and street consciousness. Drawing on the music, lives, politics, and interests of figures including Afrika Bambaataa, the "godfather of hip-hop," and his Zulu Nation, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Grandmaster Flash, Kool "DJ" Herc, MC Lyte, LL Cool J, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Ice-T, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, and The Last Poets, Rap Music and Street Consciousness challenges outsider views of the genre. The book also draws on ethnographic research done in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit and London, as well as interviews with performers, producers, directors, fans, and managers. Keyes's vivid and wide-ranging analysis covers the emergence and personas of female rappers and white rappers, the legal repercussions of technological advancements such as electronic mixing and digital sampling, the advent of rap music videos, and the existence of gangsta rap, Southern rap, acid rap, and dance-centered rap subgenres. Also considered are the crossover careers of rap artists in movies and television; rapper-turned-mogul phenomenons such as Queen Latifah; the multimedia empire of Sean "P. Diddy" Combs; the cataclysmic rise of Death Row Records; East Coast versus West Coast tensions; the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace; and the unification efforts of the Nation of Islam and the Hip-Hop Nation.
Author | : Joseph D. Eure |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James G. Spady |
Publisher | : Umum/Loh |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
This book presents in-depth conversations with hip-hop artists from around the world, representing the many regional scenes of the U.S. (from the East Coast to the Bay Area to the Dirty South), France, the Caribbean (from Jamaica to Puerto Rico), and Africa (from Algeria to Senegal), as well as diverse forms of street musics, such as Reggaeton, Reggae/Dancehall, Shaabi and Rai. Conversations with Jay-Z, Mos Def, Eve, Sean Paul, Young Jeezy, Foxy Brown, Booba, Buju Banton, Ivy Queen, Afrika Bambaataa, Sonia Sanchez, DJ Kool Herc, Oxmo Puccino, Trina, Cornbread, Mannie Fresh, Intik, Beanie Sigel, Cheb Khaled, Pitbull, Manu Key, Tego Calderon and many others, demonstrate these artists to be critical interpreters of their own culture and of the world around them. This book centers the usually marginalized voices of Hip Hop communities, presenting a remarkably refreshing and revealing view of Hip Hop Culture from the inside-out.
Author | : Edward Finegan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2004-06-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521777476 |
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Author | : Cheryl L. Keyes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : H. Samy Alim |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2006-09-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134243642 |
Complementing a burgeoning area of interest and academic study, Roc the Mic Right explores the central role of language within the Hip Hop Nation (HHN). With its status convincingly argued as the best means by which to read Hip Hop culture, H. Samy Alim then focuses on discursive practices, such as narrative sequencing and ciphers, or lyrical circles of rhymers. Often a marginalized phenomenon, the complexity and creativity of Hip Hop lyrical production is emphasised, whilst Alim works towards the creation of a schema by which to understand its aesthetic. Using his own ethnographic research, Alim shows how Hip Hop language could be used in an educational context and presents a new approach to the study of the language and culture of the Hip Hop Nation: 'Hiphopography'. The final section of the book, which includes real conversational narratives from Hip Hop artists such as The Wu-Tang Clan and Chuck D, focuses on direct engagement with the language. A highly accessible and lively work on the most studied and read about language variety in the United States, this book will appeal not only to language and linguistics researchers and students, but holds a genuine appeal to anyone interested in Hip Hop or Black African Language.
Author | : Tricia Rose |
Publisher | : Civitas Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-12-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0465008976 |
A pioneering expert in the study of hip-hop explains why the music matters--and why the battles surrounding it are so very fierce.
Author | : Alessandro Duranti |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2009-05-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1405126337 |
Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader is a comprehensive collection of the best work that has been published in this exciting and growing area of anthropology, and is organized to provide a guide to key issues in the study of language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. Revised and updated, this second edition contains eight new articles on key subjects, including speech communities, the power and performance of language, and narratives Selections are both historically oriented and thematically coherent, and are accessibly grouped according to four major themes: speech community and communicative competence; the performance of language; language socialization and literacy practices; and the power of language An extensive introduction provides an original perspective on the development of the field and highlights its most compelling issues Each section includes a brief introductory statement, sets of guiding questions, and list of recommended readings on the main topics
Author | : Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
As hip-hop artists constantly struggle to "keep it real," this fascinating study examines the debates over the core codes of hip-hop authenticity--as it reflects and reacts to problematic black images in popular culture--placing hip-hop in its proper cultural, political, and social contexts.