Droppin' Science

Droppin' Science
Author: William Eric Perkins
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781566393621

Rap and hip hop, the music and culture rooted in African American urban life, bloomed in the late 1970s on the streets and in the playgrounds of New York City. This critical collection serves as a historical guide to rap and hip hop from its beginnings to the evolution of its many forms and frequent controversies, including violence and misogyny. These wide-ranging essays discuss white crossover, women in rap, gangsta rap, message rap, raunch rap, Latino rap, black nationalism, and other elements of rap and hip hop culture like dance and fashion. An extensive bibliography and pictorial profiles by Ernie Pannicolli enhance this collection that brings together the foremost experts on the pop culture explosion of rap and hip hop. Author note: William Eric Perkins is a Faculty Fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois House at the University of Pennsylvania, and an Adjunct Professor of Communications at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Droppin' Science

Droppin' Science
Author: Denise L. McIver
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2002
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780609807293

Foreword by KRS-One Life's Little Instruction Book for the hip-hop generation, 'Droppin' Science' is a collection of quotations, life lessons and words of wisdom from the most influential voices in today's urban music scene. For the millions of teenagers and twentysomethings who idolise such musicians as Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Lil' Kim, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliot, Macy Grey, Common, Mary J. Blige, Wyclef Jean, Jay-Z and more, this book offers advice that is straight up and backed by serious street cred.

Music and Game

Music and Game
Author: Peter Moormann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-08-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3531189131

This anthology examines the various facets of video game music. Contributors from the fields of science and practice document its historical development, discuss the music’s composition techniques, interactivity and function as well as attending to its performative aspects.

Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation

Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation
Author: Christopher Emdin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9087909888

Christopher Emdin is an assistant professor of science education and director of secondary school initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in urban education with a concentration in mathematics, science and technology; a master’s degree in natural sciences; and a bachelor’s degree in physical anthropology, biology, and chemistry.

Drum 'n' Bass

Drum 'n' Bass
Author: Peter Shapiro
Publisher: Rough Guides
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1999
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781858284330

This pocket-sized book covers the back beat and its circulation through the world and traces its innovators. Hundreds of recommendations and reviews are included. Photos.

Desi Rap

Desi Rap
Author: Ajay Nair
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2008
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739127216

"Desi Rap is a collection of essays from South Asian American activists, academics, and hip-hop artists that explores four main ideas: hip-hop as a means of expression of racial identity, class status, gender, sexuality, racism, and culture; the appropriation of Black racial identity by South Asian American consumers of hip-hop; the furthering of the discourse on race and ethnic identity in the United States through hip-hop; and the exploration of South Asian Americans' use of hip-hop as a form of social protest. Ultimately, Desi Rap is about broadening our horizons through hip-hop and embracing the South Asian American community's polycultural legacy and future."--BOOK JACKET.

Taboo

Taboo
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Total Pages: 136
Release: 2001
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Let's Get Free

Let's Get Free
Author: Paul Butler
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2010-11-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1458722090

Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight - until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didnt commit. The Volokh Conspiracy calls Butlers account of his trial ''the most riveting first chapter I have ever read. In a book Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree calls ''a must read, Butler looks at places where ordinary citizens meet the justice system - as jurors, witnesses, and in encounters with the police - and explores what ''doing the right thing means in a corrupt system. Since Lets Get Frees publication, Butler has become the go-to person for commentary on criminal justice and race relations; he appeared on ABC News, Good Morning America, and Fox News, published op-eds in the New York Times, and other national papers, and is in demand to speak across the country. The paperback edition brings Butlers groundbreaking and highly controversial arguments - jury nullification (voting ''not guilty in drug cases as a form of protest), just saying ''no when the police request your permission to search, and refusing to work inside the system as a snitch or a prosecutor - to a whole new audience.

Imagining the Academy

Imagining the Academy
Author: Susan Edgerton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136284443

The essays in this book examine various forms of popular culture and the ways in which they represent, shape, and are constrained by notions about and issues within higher education. From an exploration of rap music to an analysis of how the academy presents and markets itself on the World Wide Web, the essays focus attention on higher education issues that are bound up in the workings and effects of popular culture.

Taboo

Taboo
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Total Pages: 138
Release: 2001
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