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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and
Why It Matters By Tricia Rose (Paperback, 2008)
Hip-hop is in crisis For the past dozen years the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas thugs pimps and 'hos The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining with a critical eye because as scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues hip-hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States In The Hip-Hop Wars Rose explores the most crucial issues underlying the polarized claims on each side of the debate Does hip-hop cause violence or merely reflect a violent ghetto culture? Is hip-hop sexist or are its detractors simply anti-sex? Does the portrayal of black culture in hip-hop undermine black advancement? A potent exploration of a divisive and important subject The
Hip-Hop Wars concludes with a call for the regalvanization of the progressive and creative heart of hip-hop What Rose calls for is not a sanitized vision of the form but one that more accurately reflects a much richer space of culture politics anger and yes sex than the current ubiquitous images in sound and video currently provide
Hip-Hop Wars concludes with a call for the regalvanization of the progressive and creative heart of hip-hop What Rose calls for is not a sanitized vision of the form but one that more accurately reflects a much richer space of culture politics anger and yes sex than the current ubiquitous images in sound and video currently provide
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