| Description |
xxviii, 171 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
"What's beef?" : hip hop and its critics -- "How real is this?" : prisons, iPods, pimps, and the search for authentic homes -- "This dark diction has become America's addiction" : language, diaspora, and hip hop's bling economy -- "It's trendy to be the conscious MC" : culture, rhetoric, crack, and the politics of rap -- "Cover your eyes as I describe a scene so violent" : violence, machismo, sexism, and homophobia -- (The gender remix) "Nappy-head ho's, worse than bitch niggaz" : Don Imus, the crisis of patriarchy, and the death and rebirth of hip hop. |
| Summary |
Describes social, cultural, and political aspects of hip-hop music through dialogues with academic scholars and documentary filmmakers. |
| Subject |
Rap (Music) -- History and criticism.
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Rap (Music) |
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Hip-hop.
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Hip-hop. |
| ISBN |
9780465017164 hardcover |
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0465017169 hardcover |
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