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Author: Tricia Rose
Publisher: Civitas Books
Published: 2008-12-02
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0465008976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pioneering expert in the study of hip-hop explains why the music matters--and why the battles surrounding it are so very fierce.
Author: Nathan Sacks
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 151245639X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAudisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! A rapper spits rhymes into a microphone. A DJ scratches a record back and forth against a turntable needle. Fans' feet stomp along to a stiff beat. These are the sounds of hip-hop. Hip-hop music busted out of New York City in the 1970s. Many young African Americans found their voices after stepping up to the mic. In the decades afterward, rappers and DJs took over the airwaves and transformed American music. In the twenty-first century, hip-hop is a global sensation. Learn what inspired hip-hop's earliest rappers to start rhyming over beats, as well as the stories behind hip-hop legends such as Run-D.M.C., 2Pac, Lauryn Hill, and Jay-Z. Follow the creativity and the rivalries that have fueled everything from party raps to songs about social struggles. And find out how you can add your own sounds to the mix!
Author: Karl Kovacs
Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 3954892510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past three decades hip hop has developed from an underground movement in one of New York City's poorest boroughs, the Bronx, to a worldwide multi-billion-dollar industry. Nowadays one could not imagine chart shows, discos or house-parties without rap music. According to Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., rap music, which belongs under the cultural umbrella called hip hop, 'is virtually everywhere: television, radio, film, magazines, art galleries, and in 'underground' culture'. In this work Karl Kovacs will examine the reasons for hip hop's international success, the dangers of it, and the motivations rappers had and still have to pursue their art. It is yet to be answered if the success of this form of art has been a blessing or a curse for its performers and their audience, the so-called hip hop generation.
Author: Erik Nielson
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1620973413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking exposé about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"? Few would seriously subscribe to this notion of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac whose music had gained national recognition was convicted of manslaughter after the prosecutor quoted liberally from his album Shell Shocked. Mac was sentenced to thirty years in prison, where he remains. And his case is just one of many nationwide. Over the last three decades, as rap became increasingly popular, prosecutors saw an opportunity: they could present the sometimes violent, crime-laden lyrics of amateur rappers as confessions to crimes, threats of violence, evidence of gang affiliation, or revelations of criminal motive—and judges and juries would go along with it. Detectives have reopened cold cases on account of rap lyrics and videos alone, and prosecutors have secured convictions by presenting such lyrics and videos of rappers as autobiography. Now, an alarming number of aspiring rappers are imprisoned. No other form of creative expression is treated this way in the courts. Rap on Trial places this disturbing practice in the context of hip hop history and exposes what's at stake. It's a gripping, timely exploration at the crossroads of contemporary hip hop and mass incarceration.
Author: Nelson George
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-04-26
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780143035152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between black youth culture and the mass media.
Author: Julian L. D. Shabazz
Publisher: United Brothers & Sisters
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jason Tanz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2007-02-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1596912731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last quarter-century hip-hop has grown from an esoteric form of African-American expression to become the dominant form of American popular culture. This is not the first time that black music has been appreciated, adopted, and adapted by white a
Author: Mark Katz
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0190056118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuild: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World explores the inescapable tensions and ambiguities in the relationship between art and the state, revealing the ethical complexities that lurk behind what might seem mere goodwill diplomatic tours. Author Mark Katz makes the case that hip hop can be a valuable, positive, and effective means to promote meaningful and productive international relations between people and nations.
Author: Pamela D. Bridgewater
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781611635942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is important to understanding American law? What is important to understanding hip hop? Wide swaths of renowned academics, practitioners, commentators, and performance artists have answered these two questions independently. And although understanding both depends upon the same intellectual enterprise, textual analysis of narrative storytelling, somehow their intersection has escaped critical reflection. Hip Hop and the Law merges the two cultural giants of law and rap music and demonstrates their relationship at the convergence of Legal Consciousness, Politics, Hip Hop Studies, and American Law. No matter what your role or level of experience with law or hip hop, this book is a sound resource for learning, discussing, and teaching the nuances of their relationship. Topics include Critical Race Theory, Crime and Justice, Mass Incarceration, Gender, and American Law: including Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, Constitutional Law, and Real Property Law.
Author: Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs 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.
