Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop and Some People

Name: Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop and Some People
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ISBN: 9780375753398

ISBN-10: 0375753397

ISBN-13: 9780375753398

Edition: 1998

Authors: Danny Hoch

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Theatre, performance art, or spoken word--whatever you call it, the work of actor/writer Danny Hoch is a solo tour de force. In Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop and Some People, New York City's rich oral traditions come alive on the page, as Manhattan Boricua English, Brooklyn Polish, Bronx Dominican Spanish, Queens Trinidadian English, Jamaican patois, and Hip-Hop all get flipped and flexed center stage. The range of contemporary experience on display in Hoch's monologues is astonishing: A white teenager dreams of being a black gangsta rapper. A wheelchair-bound kid explains how his mother smoked crack during pregnancy. A pale-skinned Bronx street vendor enrages a policeman who can't…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/27/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English