| Description |
xv, 349 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to music |
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Cambridge companions to music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index. |
| Summary |
Written by renowned scholars and industry professionals, this Companion covers the key elements and methods, from nerdcore hip-hop to the role of rappers in the Obama campaign. With case studies from around the world, this collection reflects the passion and scholarly activity occurring in the new generation of hip-hop studies. -- Back cover. |
| Contents |
MC origins : rap and spoken word poetry / Alice Price-Styles -- Hip-hop dance / Imani K. Johnson -- Hip-hop visual arts / Ivor Miller -- Djs and turntabilism / Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen -- The fifth element : knowledge / Travis Gosa -- Hip-hop and religion : from the mosque to the church / Christina Zanfagna -- Hip-hop theater and performance / Nicole Hodges Persley -- Lyrics and flow in rap music / Oliver Kautny -- The musical analysis of hip-hop / Kyle Adams -- The glass : hip-hop production / Chris Tabron -- Hip-hop and racial identification : an (auto)ethnographic perspective / Anthony Kwame Harrison -- Thirty years of rapsploitation : hip-hop culture in American cinema / Geoff Harkness -- Barbz and Kings : explorations of gender and sexuality in hip-hop / Regina Bradley -- Hip-hop and politics / Chris Deis -- Intertextuality, sampling, and copyright / Justin A. Williams -- Nerdcore hip-hop / Amanda Sewell -- Framing gender, race, and hip-hop in boyz in the hood, do the right thing and slam / Adam Haupt -- Japanese hip-hop : alternative stories / Noriko Manabe -- Council estate of mind : the British rap tradition and London's hip-hop scene / Richard Bramwell -- Cuban hip-hop / Sujatha Fernandes -- Senegalese hip-hop / Ali Colleen Neff -- Off the grid : instrumental hip-hop and experimentalism after the golden age / Mike D'errico -- Stylized Turkish German as the resistance vernacular of German hip-hop / Brenna Byrd -- "Bringin' '88 back" : historicizing rap music's greatest year / Loren Kajikawa -- "Where ya at?" : hip-hop's political locations in the Obama era / Michael P. Jeffries. |
| Subject |
Rap (Music) -- History and criticism.
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Rap (Music) (OCoLC)fst01089951
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Williams, Justin A., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781107037465 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1107037468 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9781107643864 (paperback) |
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1107643864 (paperback) |
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