Hip Hop Is Dead
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Author | : E. Stanley Richardson |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-04-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781544099132 |
"There is no magic more powerful than music" ~ African Proverb In his debut poetry collection, E.Stanley Richardson captures the visual eclectic voice and expression of the "everyday" African American experience in a style and rhythm reminiscent of the "Black Arts Movement" "Hip Hop Is Dead - Long Live Hip Hop, The Birth, Death And Resurrection Of Hip Hop Activism" is a unique lyrical blend of Gospel, Blues, Jazz, Soul and "Hip Hop" poetry that testifies to the transcendent Ancestral Power and influence of African American music, its historical relationship to "social struggle" and to the "colonial mechanisms" within the dominant oppressive culture that conspire to appropriate, suppress, distort and control radical progressive African American music and art. This is poetry that speaks! It summons us all to creative social and political action, while simultaneously asking a divine question, "How Sacred Is The Music?" ~ Long Live Hip Hop
Author | : Roy Christopher |
Publisher | : Watkins Media Limited |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1912248352 |
The story of how hip-hop created, and came to dominate, the twenty-first century. In Dead Precedents, Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the twenty-first century. Emerging alongside cyberpunk in the 1980s, the hallmarks of hip-hop - allusion, self-reference, the use of new technologies, sampling, the cutting and splicing of language and sound - would come to define the culture of the new millennium. Taking in the groundbreaking work of DJs and MCs, alongside writers like Dick and Gibson, as well as graffiti and DIY culture, Dead Precedents is a counter-culture history of the twentieth century, showcasing hip-hop's role in the creation of the world we now live in.
Author | : Mickey Hess |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2007-08-30 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1567207219 |
Hip hop is remarkably self-critical as a genre. In lyrics, rappers continue to debate the definition of hip hop and question where the line between underground artist and mainstream crossover is drawn, who owns the culture and who runs the industry, and most importantly, how to remain true to the culture's roots while also seeking fame and fortune. The tension between the desires to preserve hip hop's original culture and to create commercially successful music promotes a lyrical war of words between mainstream and underground artists that keeps hip hop very much alive today. In response to criticisms that hip hop has suffered or died in its transition to the mainstream, this book seeks to highlight and examine the ongoing dialogue among rap artists whose work describes their own careers. Proclamations of hip hop's death have flooded the airwaves. The issue may have reached its boiling point in Nas's 2006 album Hip Hop is Dead. Nas's album is driven by nostalgia for a mythically pure moment in hip hop's history, when the music was motivated by artistic passion, instead of base commercialism. In the course of this same album, however, Nas himself brags about making money for his particular record label. These and similar contradictions are emblematic of the complex forces underlying the dialogue that keeps hip hop a vital element of our culture. Is Hip Hop Dead? seeks to illuminate the origins of hip hop nostalgia and examine how artists maintain control of their music and culture in the face of corporate record companies, government censorship, and the standardization of the rap image. Many hip hop artists, both mainstream and underground, use their lyrics to engage in a complex dialogue about rhyme skills versus record sales, and commercialism versus culture. This ongoing dialogue invigorates hip hop and provides a common ground upon which we can reconsider many of the developments in the industry over the past 20 years. Building from black traditions that value knowledge gained from personal experience, rappers emphasize the importance of street knowledge and its role in forging a career in the music business. Lyrics adopt models of the self-made man narrative, yet reject the trajectories of white Americans like Benjamin Franklin who espoused values of prudence, diligence, and delayed gratification. Hip hop's narratives instead promote a more immediately viable gratification through crime and extend this criminal mentality to their work in the music business. Through the lens of hip hop, and the threats to hip hop culture, author Mickey Hess is able to confront a range of important issues, including race, class, criminality, authenticity, the media, and personal identity.
Author | : M. K. Asante, Jr. |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008-09-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1429946350 |
In It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, M. K. Asante, Jr. looks at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world. Asante, a young firebrand poet, professor, filmmaker, and activist who represents this movement, uses hip hop as a springboard for a larger discussion about the urgent social and political issues affecting the post-hip-hop generation, a new wave of youth searching for an understanding of itself outside the self-destructive, corporate hip-hop monopoly. Through insightful anecdotes, scholarship, personal encounters, and conversations with youth across the globe as well as icons such as Chuck D and Maya Angelou, Asante illuminates a shift that can be felt in the crowded spoken-word joints in post-Katrina New Orleans, seen in the rise of youth-led organizations committed to social justice, and heard around the world chanting "It's bigger than hip hop."
Author | : Blak Smith |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2014-03-06 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1312034165 |
Welcome to the evolution of the industry of Hip Hop. Join the journey into the culture.....
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
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Author | : Tricia Rose |
Publisher | : Civitas Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-12-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0465008976 |
A pioneering expert in the study of hip-hop explains why the music matters--and why the battles surrounding it are so very fierce.
Author | : Saul Williams |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2006-02-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1416523049 |
In the underground labyrinths of New York City's subway system, beneath the third rail of a long forgotten line, Saul Williams discovered scrolls of aged yellowish-brown paper rolled tightly into a can of spray paint. His quest to decipher this mystical ancient text resulted in a primal understanding of the power hip-hop has to teach us about ourselves and the universe around us. Now, for the first time, Saul Williams shares with the world the wonder revealed to him by the Dead Emcee Scrolls. I have paraded as a poet for years now. In the proc ess of parading I may have actually become one, but that's another story, another book. This book is a book that I have been waiting to finish since 1995. This is the book that finished me. The story I am about to tell may sound fantastic. It may anger some of you who have followed my work. You may feel that you have come to know me over the years, and in some cases you have, but in others...well, this is a confession.
Author | : James Acaster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-06-25 |
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ISBN | : 9781472260314 |
Author | : Sanford Richmond, PhD |
Publisher | : Hillcrest Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1635052262 |
Becoming the first Black president in the history of the United States, and shattering the mold of conventional politics by making hip hop culture his political ally, Obama's public relationship with hip hop throughout his presidency caused an explosion of public dialogue.