Close to the Edge In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation

Name: Close to the Edge In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation
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ISBN: 9781844677412

ISBN-10: 1844677419

ISBN-13: 9781844677412

Edition: 2011

Authors: Sujatha Fernandes

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Close to the Edge tells the stories of a global generation that came of age with hip hop. Part memoir, part social history, the book relates the author'¬"s experiences as she traverses the hip hop globe, from Australia to Detroit and from Havana to Caracas. The book explores the elements of hip hop culture'¬ ;rapping, beat making, b-boying, d-jaying, and graffiti'¬ ; as they melded with street cultures and local slang to be reinvented around the world. Close to the Edge narrates a search for solidarities across borders, a document of the diverse histories, misunderstandings, and fissures that hip hop engendered as it went global, and a powerful demonstration of the power of music to forge…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 9/12/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.48" wide x 8.24" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638



Preface


Introduction. The Making of a Hip Hop Globe



Made in Havana City



Down and Underground in Chi-Town



Blackfulla Blackfulla



In the Mouth of the Wolf


Epilogue. Global Rage: Over the Edge


Notes


Acknowledgments