Let's Draw Manga: Tokyo Urban - Hip Hop Culture

Let's Draw Manga: Tokyo Urban - Hip Hop Culture

Author: Makoto Nakajima

Publisher: Digital Manga, Inc.

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1613132034

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Fast cars, fast women, late nightclubs, hardcore rappers & troubled youth-welcome to the urban world of Hip Hop, Japanese style! Hip Hop has long become a cultural icon that has but recently spilled over American edges and into countries like Japan. Now, LET'S DRAW MANGA takes you behind the scene of Tokyo's trendy subculture with LET'S DRAW MANGA-TOKYO URBAN-HIP HOP CULTURE.


Tokyo Urban-hip Hop Culture

Tokyo Urban-hip Hop Culture

Author: Makoto Nakajima

Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781569709696

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Instructed by Japanese street experts and drawn by industry veterans of manga, this valuable instructional guide helps readers depict the fast-pace urban lifestyle of Tokyo, Japan's largest mecca for the Hip Hop subculture it bears by its youth today. Through a series of studied drawings of various character designs, urban environments, city living conditions and youth entertainment, which are essential elements to creating this unique genre, this book presents to the novice artist step-by-step illustrations and design instructions which ultimately lead up to formulating a short urban story. With focus on creating characters with the hippest hairstyles and latest trends in fashion, down to constructing the various local youth settings, this book makes the perfect uniquely themed reference guide for anyone wanting to draw on urban manga drama!


Hip-Hop Japan

Hip-Hop Japan

Author: Ian Condry

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780822338925

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An ethnographic study of Japanese hip-hop.


24 Bars to Kill

24 Bars to Kill

Author: Andrew B. Armstrong

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2019-06-06

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 178920268X

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The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese hip-hop, “ghetto” or “gangsta” music has much in common with its corresponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational “rags-to-riches” narratives. Contrary to depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, gangsta J-hop gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill offers a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it, showing how gangsta hip-hop arises from widespread dissatisfaction and malaise.


Tokyo Fashion City

Tokyo Fashion City

Author: Philomena Keet

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1462918476

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The fashionable, eccentric pedestrians of Tokyo are captured with hundreds of portrait photographs in this fun guide to Tokyo street fashion. Tokyo is considered one of the world's style capitals for its vibrant youth fashion culture. Part guide book, part fashion photography album, Tokyo Fashion City takes a stroll through eight Tokyo neighborhoods, each with its own unique fashion characteristics, to see what streetwise young Tokyoites are wearing, where they're shopping, what they're eating and drinking, and where they're hanging out. Author Philomena Keet and photographer Yuri Manabe accompany the reader to Harajuku where high fashion rubs shoulders with hip-hop style; to Shibuya, birthplace of the "gal" and stomping ground for Tokyo's most sophisticated fashionistas; to hipster hangout Daikanyama; to the goth and geek meccas of Shinjuku and Ikebukuro; to bohemian Koenji and otaku neighborhood Nakano; to Ginza's lunching ladies and dapper gentlemen; to the cosplay paradise of Akihabara; and to the narrow lanes of East Tokyo, where everyday Japanese fashion gets a traditional touch. Each chapter is packed with photographs of young fashionistas captured as they go about their daily lives, with info-rich captions, and insightful text giving the background to the trends and tribes featured. With the inclusion of area maps, and shop and cafe listings, Tokyo Fashion City is an indispensable resource for readers wishing to keep a finger on Tokyo's style pulse.


From Bomba to Hip-hop

From Bomba to Hip-hop

Author: Juan Flores

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780231110778

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Flores investigates the historical experience of Puerto Ricans in New York, reflecting their varied areas of cultural expression in the diaspora against the background of contemporary debates in Puerto Rico and recent developments in cultural theory. Close studies of urban space and performance, popular musical styles, and Nuyorican literature highlight the complexities and contradictions of Latino identity.


The Vinyl Ain't Final

The Vinyl Ain't Final

Author: Dipannita Basu

Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

Published: 2006-04-20

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Explores the impact of hip hop on culture worldwide.


The Languages of Global Hip Hop

The Languages of Global Hip Hop

Author: Marina Terkourafi

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-09-23

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0826431607

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Looks at linguistic, cultural and economic aspects of hip-hop in parallel using various frameworks of analysis.


Art in the Streets

Art in the Streets

Author: Jeffrey Deitch

Publisher: Skira

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0847836177

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A catalog of an exhibition that surveys the history of international graffiti and street art.


Hip Hop Culture

Hip Hop Culture

Author: Emmett G. Price III

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2006-05-19

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1851098682

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This work is a revealing chronicle of Hip Hop culture from its beginnings three decades ago to the present, with an analysis of its influence on people and popular culture in the United States and around the world. From Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message," to Jay-Z, Diddy, and 50 Cent, Hip Hop Culture is the first comprehensive reference work to focus on one of the most influential cultural phenomena of our time. Scholarly and streetwise, backed by statistics, documents, and research, it recounts three decades of Hip Hop's evolution, highlighting its defining events, recordings, personalities, movements, and ideas, as well as society's response. How did an inner-city subculture, all but dismissed in the early 1980s, become the ruler of the world's airwaves and iPods? Who are the players who moved Hip Hop from the record bins to the pinnacles of entertainment, business, and fashion? Who are the founders, innovators, legends, and major players? Authoritative and authentic, Hip Hop Culture provides a wealth of information and insights for students, educators, and anyone interested in the ways pop culture reflects and shapes our lives.