Rhyme's Challenge

Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Music Styles, Pop & Rock, Rap, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism
Cover of the book Rhyme's Challenge by David Caplan, Oxford University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: David Caplan ISBN: 9780199364268
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: January 13, 2014
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: David Caplan
ISBN: 9780199364268
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: January 13, 2014
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Eminem and Jay-Z, David Caplan's study demonstrates the continuing relevance of rhyme to poetry -- and everyday life.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Eminem and Jay-Z, David Caplan's study demonstrates the continuing relevance of rhyme to poetry -- and everyday life.

More books from Oxford University Press

Cover of the book Independent Agencies in the United States by David Caplan
Cover of the book Making Sense in Religious Studies by David Caplan
Cover of the book Reciting the Goddess by David Caplan
Cover of the book The Complete Euripides by David Caplan
Cover of the book The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by David Caplan
Cover of the book We Are an African People by David Caplan
Cover of the book Manufacturing Religion by David Caplan
Cover of the book The Making of Buddhist Modernism by David Caplan
Cover of the book Angelo Mosso's Circulation of Blood in the Human Brain by David Caplan
Cover of the book "Far, Far From Home" by David Caplan
Cover of the book Navigating Environmental Attitudes by David Caplan
Cover of the book The Creativity Reader by David Caplan
Cover of the book Naked City by David Caplan
Cover of the book A Commentary on Demosthenes' Philippic I by David Caplan
Cover of the book Historic Churches of New Mexico Today by David Caplan
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy