Hip Hop Matters Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

Name: Hip Hop Matters Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement
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ISBN: 9780807009864

ISBN-10: 0807009865

ISBN-13: 9780807009864

Edition: 2006

Authors: S. Craig Watkins

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Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the "hip hop generation," Hip Hop Matters focuses on fierce and far-reaching battles being waged in politics, pop culture, and academe to assert control over the movement. At stake, Watkins argues, is the impact hip hop has on the lives of the young people who live and breathe the culture. He presents incisive analysis of the corporate takeover of hip hop and the rampant misogyny that undermines the movement's progressive claims. Ultimately, we see how hip hop struggles reverberate in the larger world: global media consolidation; racial and demographic flux; generational cleavages; the reinvention of the pop…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 8/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English