Rap category: 259 books
Under the Influence
Where Hiphop Meets Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
You are an android. Okay, well maybe you’re not really an android, but you have been programmed. Hiphop artist, GaKnew Roxwel, dives into psychology and brings back a bounty of gems. Under the Influence, paired with the Sound of Silence album, creatively shares the science of automatization and how...
In Search of Soul
Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In Search of Soul explores the meaning of “soul” in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history. Surveying the work of writers, artists, poets, musicians, philosophers and theologians, Alejandro Nava shows how...
Urban God Talk
Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by Andre Johnson, is a collection of essays that examine the religious and spiritual in hip hop. The contributors argue that the prevailing narrative that hip hop offers nothing in the way of religion and spirituality is false. From its beginning,...
by Sanford Richmond, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The book, Hip Hop Ain’t Dead: It’s Livin’ In the White House, is about a man, Barack Obama, who made history. By first, becoming the first Black President in the history of the United States, and second, shattering the mold of conventional politics by making hip hop culture his political ally. ...
The Boston Celtics
Larry Bird, Bob Cousy, Red Auerbach, and Other Legends Recall Great Moments in Celtics History
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Since the team’s inception in 1946, the Boston Celtics have been at the heart of the culture and history of the city they call home. And as Boston has transformed over the years, the Celtics too have evolved to reflect and embrace the changing times. In a book like no other, veteran writer and lifelong...
Religion in Hip Hop
Mapping the New Terrain in the US
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Now a global and transnational phenomenon, hip hop culture continues to affect and be affected by the institutional, cultural, religious, social, economic and political landscape of American society and beyond. Over the past two decades, numerous disciplines have taken up hip hop culture for its intellectual...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
This set covers all aspects of international hip hop as expressed through music, art, fashion, dance, and political activity.
• Includes contributors from a range of fields, including musicology, theater, and anthropology, giving readers a broad perspective on the genre
• Covers...
Graffiti Grrlz
Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
An inside look at women graffiti artists around the world
Since the dawn of Hip Hop graffiti writing on the streets of Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s, writers have anonymously inscribed their tag names on trains, buildings, and bridges. Passersby are left to imagine who the...
Hip-Hop in Africa
Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa, Msia...
by Joshua K. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
FOX’s musical drama Empire has been hailed as the savior of broadcast television, drawing 15 million viewers a week. A “hip-hopera” inspired by Shakespeare’s King Lear and 1980s prime-time soap Dynasty, the series is at the forefront of a black popular culture Renaissance—yet has stirred...
by Samian
Language: French
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Et moi, je rêve d’être le plus grand orateur La plume d’aigle est synonyme de paix De liberté, de courage, de force et de respect La plume n’est pas seulement un symbole autochtone Elle m’a permis de me découvrir, D’aller au fond de ma personne L’aigle a une vision, une histoire, une...
by Robert Greene, 50 Cent
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2013
El controvertido músico 50 Cent nos entrega en estas páginas una filosofía de vida que es, al mismo tiempo, una verdadera lección de supervivencia y lucha en un mundo en el que priva la violencia y la competencia feroz. La obra ofrece valiosas lecciones para los emprendedores de hoy sobre cómo...
by Marco Pizzini
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Puto
Rime
Semplici,
Efficaci,
Tanto pe divve:
Ne siete capaci?
Cro - Easy zum Erfolg
Die inoffizielle Biografie
Language: German
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Wer ist eigentlich Cro, der Typ mit der Panda-Maske? Seit Monaten dominiert der junge Rapper mit dem mysteriösen Auftreten die Charts und häklt dabei jegliche Information über seine Person im Nebulösen. Die bekannten Musikjournalisten Michael Fuchs-Gamböck, Georg Rackow und Thorsten Schatz nähern...