Rap category: 259 books
The Beat
Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
The Beat! was the first book to explore the musical, social, and cultural phenomenon of go-go music. In this new edition, updated by a substantial chapter on the current scene, authors Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson, Jr., place go-go within black popular music made since the middle 1970s--a...
Hip Hop Matters
Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
From its humble beginnings in the Bronx to its transformation into a multibillion-dollar global industry, hip hop has stirred constant and contentious debate. Avoiding the simple caricatures that either celebrate or condemn this powerful movement, S. Craig Watkins produces one of the most thorough...
Remix Multilingualism
Hip Hop, Ethnography and Performing Marginalized Voices
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
"Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes bricolage....
by Dan Hancox
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 ‘The definitive grime biography’ NME ’A landmark genre history’ Pitchfork The year 2000. As Britain celebrates the new millennium, something is stirring in the crumbling council estates of inner-city London....
Break Beats in the Bronx
Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
The origin story of hip-hop—one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx—has become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full story remains to be told. In vibrant prose, he combines never-before-used archival material with searching questions...
by Sophy Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Armed only with turntables, a mixer and a pile of records, hip-hop DJs and turntable musicians have changed the face of music. However, whilst hip-hop has long been recognised as an influential popular culture both culturally and sociologically, hip-hop music is rarely taken seriously as an artistic...
Australian Indigenous Hip Hop
The Politics of Culture, Identity, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book investigates the discursive and performative strategies employed by Australian Indigenous rappers to make sense of the world and establish a position of authority over their identity and place in society. Focusing on the aesthetics, the language, and the performativity of Hip Hop, this book...
Cuban Underground Hip Hop
Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In the wake of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a key state ideology developed: racism was a systemic cultural issue that ceased to exist after the Revolution, and any racism that did persist was a result of contained cases of individual prejudice perpetuated by US influence. Even after the state officially...
Thug Life
Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States, a massively successful corporate enterprise predominantly...
Entertainment University
School of Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This book is the culmination of thousands of hours of thinking, living, talking, research- ing, and writing about Entertainment University School of Hip Hop covering film, music, and entertainment business. It is our intent that people, dreamers, industry profession- als, academics, students, business...
Foundation
B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
B-boying is a form of Afro-diasporic competitive dance that developed in the Bronx, NY in the early 1970s. Widely - though incorrectly - known as "breakdancing," it is often dismissed as a form of urban acrobatics set to music. In reality, however, b-boying is a deeply traditional and profoundly...
by Sezai Coban
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Completely revised edition 2018
What’s a ‘Swipe, Downrock or Scribble Foot’? Who was Rubberband Man and what did he contribute to the ‘Uprocking’ form of Urban Dance? From the outside looking in, Urban Dance and culture can seem like a big mystery, but the only thing you need to know...
by Dr. T.L. Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
The Hip Hop Lectures (Volume 1) are inspired by actual academic Hip Hop lectures taught in various educational institutes and organizations. The Hip Hop Lectures provide readers with an in-depth look at current Hip Hop culture through the lens of history. Throughout this book, the reader will be able...
Rebel Music
Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This fascinating, timely, and important book on the connection between music and political activism among Muslim youth around the world looks at how hip-hop, jazz, and reggae, along with Andalusian and Gnawa music, have become a means of building community and expressing protest in the face of the...