From Morrissey and Nick Cave to The Streets and Kanye West, this book explores the links between hip-hop and rock. It focuses on two strands: white alternative rock and black street music. It identifies the strange dance of white bohemian rock and black culture, how they come together at various points and then go their own way.
Amid the historic overturnings of 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, pop music also experienced striking changes. Conjuring cultural sensations and events of 1989, this title tracks the emergence of seemingly disconnected phenomena - from grunge to acid house to gangsta rap.
Analyzes how young hip hop artists in the East African nations of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania showcase the opportunities and challenges brought by the globalization of music. This book focuses on cross-border exchanges within East African hip hop, and collaborations in recording music and performances.
Features seven young men, who are trying to make it in the rap business. This work follows the changes in their musical and personal lives as they try and get shows, auditions, record demos. What they all share is the experience of growing up in a place that is far more violent than the one their parents grew up in.
From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the Billboard charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. In this book, the editors demonstrate that rap is also a wide-reaching and vital poetic tradition born of beats and rhymes.
Presents collection of flyers advertising secret parties on the Bristol circuit in the 80s and a series of interviews with the people behind the leading hip hop crews of the day. This book covers an area in Bristol's (and the UK's) musical development.
What lunacy would cause a 55-year-old white male, to embroil himself in the world of New Orleans rap, not merely as an observer, but as an active participant? Nik Cohn has loved hip-hop since its birth, and loved and hated New Orleans for even longer. This is the story of a journey to the heart of rap, New Orleans, and self-knowledge.
Talks about Josh Davis's (DJ Shadow) early years in California, the friends and mentors who helped him along the way, his relationship with Mo'Wax and James Lavelle, and the genesis and creation of his masterpiece, Endtroducing (released in 1996). This book includes several long conversations with him.
Hip hop is in crisis. The author argues that Hip hop matters, because hip hop occupies a unique historical role: this it is the only point in modern culture when a solid segment (if not majority) of an entire generation of youth understands itself as defined primarily by a musical, cultural form.
Brings together some of the best-known and most influential writings on rap and hip-hop from its beginnings onwards. This edition includes coverage of gender and racial diversity in hip-hop, and takes a look at hip-hop's role in politics, including the 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama.
Brings together some of the best-known and most influential writings on rap and hip-hop from its beginnings onwards. This edition includes coverage of gender and racial diversity in hip-hop, and takes a look at hip-hop's role in politics, including the 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama.
From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the Billboard charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. This title demonstrates that rap is also a wide-reaching and vital poetic tradition born of beats and rhymes.
Under the leadership of Kevin Liles, Def Jam Music grew into a multi-million-dollar brand. Including anecdotes from Lile's life, this work advises readers on: how to find something that you want badly enough to make you work harder than you every imagined possible; how to strategize and look ahead; how to embrace the hard-knock life; and more.
A story of how hip hop conquered the globe and nobody noticed. This work explores the way how, through hip hop, the potent symbolism of black America has been acquired, used and subsumed by cultures on every continent to create a uniquely different form of globalism.