AuthorPerry, Imani
TitleProphets of the hood : Politics and poetics in hip hop / Imani Perry
Imprint London : duke University Press, 2004
Edition 1st ed
Descript x, 236p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Hip Hop's Mama : Originalism and Identity in the Music -- My Mic Sound Nice : Art, Community, and Consciousness -- Stinging Like Tabasco : Structure and format in Hip Hop compositions -- The Glorious Outlaw : Hip Hop Narratives, American Law, and the Court of Public Opinion -- B-Boys, Players, and Preachers : Reading Masculinity -- The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto : Negothiating Spaces for Women -- Bling Bling ... and Going Pop : Consumerism and co-optation in Hip Hop


SUBJECT

  1. Hip-hop
  2. Hip-hop -- Social aspects
  3. Rap ((Music) -- Political aspects
  4. Rap (Music) -- History and criticism

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Political Science Library782.421649 P462P CHECK SHELVES