Rap and Hip Hop Culture

Name: Rap and Hip Hop Culture
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ISBN: 9780199987733

ISBN-10: 0199987734

ISBN-13: 9780199987733

Edition: 2014

Authors: Fernando Orejuela

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Rap and Hip Hop Culture traces the ideological, social, historical, and cultural influences on a musical genre that first came to prominence in the mid-1970s in one of New York's toughest neighborhoods, the South Bronx. Orejuela describes how the arts of DJing, MCing, breakin' [b-boying], and graffiti developed as a way for this community's struggle to find its own voice. He addresses rap's early successes on the pop charts; its spread to mainstream culture; the growth of "gangsta rap" and mainstream society's reaction to it; and the commercial success of rap music from the '90s through today. Throughout, this enlightening text highlights key performers, producers, and voices in the rap and…

Book details

List price: $84.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 9.10" wide x 7.40" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English