Rap category: 259 books
Far From Over
The Music and Life of Drake, The Unofficial Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The first biography of superstar rapper Drake
At a time when album sales were plummeting, Drake’s 2010 debut album, Thank Me Later, went platinum, hit number one on the Billboard 200 chart, and spawned numerous Top 10 hits including “Over,” “Best I Ever Had,” and “Find Your Love.”...
Who Shot Ya?
Three Decades of HipHop Photography
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli, considered by many to be the James Van Der Zee of the hiphop generation, began photographing graffiti art throughout New York City as well as the young people creating it. Armed with a 35-millimeter camera, Paniccioli literally recorded the beginning salvos...
Real Love, No Drama
The Music of Mary J. Blige
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Mary J. Blige is an icon who represents the political consciousness of hip hop and the historical promise of soul. She is an everywoman, celebrated by Oprah Winfrey and beloved by pop music fans of all ages and races. Blige has sold over fifty million albums, won numerous Grammys, and even played at...
The Pirate's Dilemma
How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
It started with punk. Hip-hop, rave, graffiti, and gaming took it to another level, and now modern technology has made the ideas and innovations of youth culture increasingly intimate and increasingly global at the same time.
In The Pirate's Dilemma, VICE magazine's Matt Mason -- poised to...
F*ck, That's Delicious
An Annotated Guide to Eating Well
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
This ain’t no cookbook. This ain’t no memoir. This is Action Bronson’s devotional, a book about the overwhelming power of delicious—no, f*cking amazing—food. Bronson is this era’s Homer, and F*ck, That’s Delicious is a modern-day Odyssey, replete with orgiastic recipes, world travel,...
I Am Hip-Hop
Conversations on the Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
"What is Hip-Hop?" In order to answer this question, author Andrew J. Rausch interviewed 24 individuals whose creative expressions are intimately associated with the world of hip-hop music and culture. Those interviewed include emcees, DJs, producers, graffiti artists, poets, and journalists....
by Lamont Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
On August 11 1973 the first Hip Hop party was held in the rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Ave in the Bronx, NY. On that day a young man named DJ Kool Herc would become a legend.Many other individuals were instrumental in making the DJ an artist and not just a person who played records.This...
Hip Hop's Inheritance
From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, 'inherited' from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the...
by Karen Snell, Johan Söderman
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Hip-hop’s historical nature as a mouthpiece for marginalized peoples provides a platform for its universal-appeal and contemporary relevancy. Moreover, hip-hop culture’s affirmation of a pedagogy of liberation has great potential not only to address many current issues in educational contexts, but also to create more egalitarian ambitions in western public schools.
Let the World Listen Right
The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
In the Mississippi Delta, creativity, community, and a rich expressive culture persist despite widespread poverty. Over five years of extensive work in the region, author Ali Colleen Neff collected a wealth of materials that demonstrate a vibrant musical scene.Let the World Listen Right draws from...
Hip Hop at Europe's Edge
Music, Agency, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes locally inflected. After the Soviet Union fell,...
The Organic Globalizer
Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The Organic Globalizer is a collection of critical essays which takes the position that hip-hop holds political significance through an understanding of its ability to at once raise cultural awareness, expand civil society's focus on social and economic justice through institution building, and engage...
Flip the Script
European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it has been taken up by those facing similar struggles....
Hip Hop Africa
New African Music in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other...