Rap and hip hop culture / Fernando Orejuela.

By:

Orejuela, Fernando [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.Description: xviii, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199987733

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

782.421649

Contents:

What is hip hop? what is rap? -- Hip hop's ground zero : the South Bronx and urban America -- Graffiti art and breaking -- Rap's African and African-American cultural roots -- Old school DJs and MCs -- The Golden Era -- Hardcore : "message rap" and "gangsta rap" -- Hardcore II : gangsta in the '90s and responses from within the rap community -- Hip hop culture and rap music in the second millennium -- Conclusion.

Summary: "Rap and Hip Hop Culture traces the ideological, social, historical, and cultural influences on a musical genre that first came to prominence in the mid-1970s in one of New York's toughest neighborhoods, the South Bronx. Orejuela described how the arts of Djing, MCing, breakin' (b-boying), and graffiti developed as a way for this community's struggle to find its own voice. He addresses rap's early successes on the pop charts; its spread to mainstream culture; the growth of "gangsta rap" and mainstream society's reaction to it; and the commercial success of rap music from the '90s through today. Throughout, this enlightening text highlights key performers, producers, and voices in the rap and hip hop movements, using their stories to illuminate the underlying issues of racism, poverty, prejudice, and artistic freedom that are part of rap and hip hop's ongoing legacy." -- Publisher's description.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	782.421649 ORE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000010909		Vasilaki, Rosa

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index.

"Rap and Hip Hop Culture traces the ideological, social, historical, and cultural influences on a musical genre that first came to prominence in the mid-1970s in one of New York's toughest neighborhoods, the South Bronx. Orejuela described how the arts of Djing, MCing, breakin' (b-boying), and graffiti developed as a way for this community's struggle to find its own voice. He addresses rap's early successes on the pop charts; its spread to mainstream culture; the growth of "gangsta rap" and mainstream society's reaction to it; and the commercial success of rap music from the '90s through today. Throughout, this enlightening text highlights key performers, producers, and voices in the rap and hip hop movements, using their stories to illuminate the underlying issues of racism, poverty, prejudice, and artistic freedom that are part of rap and hip hop's ongoing legacy." -- Publisher's description.