Rap & Hip Hop

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Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Black Church stood as the stronghold of the Black Community, fighting for equality and economic self-sufficiency and challenging its body to be self-determined and self-aware. Hip Hop Culture grew from disenfranchised...

Murda', Misogyny, and Mayhem: Hip-Hop and the Culture of Abnormality in the Urban Community is a sociological work that utilizes a historical materialist perspective to expose the harmful effects of hip hop as a regulated industry, music, and culture...

Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities, by Christopher Dennis, explores the impact that globalization and the transnational spread of U.S. popular culture-specifically hip-hop and rap-are having on the social...

Hip-Hop Within and Without the Academy explores why hip-hop has become such a meaningful musical genre for so many musicians, artists, and fans around the world. Through multiple interviews with hip-hop emcees, DJs, and turntablists, the authors explore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780767919777Author Kenji JasperFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown Publishing...

Posthuman Rap listens for the ways contemporary rap maps an existence outside the traditional boundaries of what it means to be human. Contemporary humanity is shaped in neoliberal terms, where being human means being viable in a capitalist marketplace...

It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ. Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is...

With ongoing debates on Scottish independence, immigration, Britain's place in the EU, multiculturalism, national identity and the specter of a past Empire complicating ethnically-defined notions of "Britishness," the Kingdom seems far from United. As a...

This book provides new practical tools that bridge the gap between familiar, easy-to-use technology and musical practice to enhance musicianship and motivate students. Authors Jennifer Mishra and Barbara Fast provide ideas for use with students of all...

Teacher Evaluation in Music: A Guide for Music Teachers in the U. S. aims to help music teachers navigate the controversial terrain of teacher evaluation. Rather than entering the debate on policy divorced from practice, this book is intended as a...

Since 2001, the U.S. Department of State has been sending hip hop artists abroad to perform and teach as goodwill ambassadors. There are good reasons for this: hip hop is known and loved across the globe, acknowledged and appreciated as a product of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984825155Author Jonathan AbramsFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Crown ForumPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 561g

In Hip Hop World, Dalton Higgins comprehensively examines the hip hop scene as it exists throughout the world. The book reveals the form's musical inspirations from Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, African American sex satirists, comedians, civil...

Powered by a driving beat, clever lyrics, and assertive attitudes, rap music and hip hop culture have engrossed American youth since the mid-1980s. Although the first rappers were African Americans, rap and hip hop culture quickly spread to other ethnic...

Composition and hip hop may seem unrelated, but the connection isn't hard to make: Hip hop and rap rely on a complex of narrative practices that have clear ties to some of the best American essay writing. A Hip Hop Reader brings together work by...

This book focuses on the culture and politics involved in building hip-hop archives. It addresses practical aspects, including methods of accumulation, curation, preservation, and digitization and critically analyzes institutional power, community...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606998489Author Ed PiskorFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 534g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188369703Author Kate BlandfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument Forlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Will Eisner Comic Industry Award (Reality-Based) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781606997567Author Ed PiskorFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (Adult Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780312674151Author Mara ShalhoupFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint...

An NPR Best Books of 2019 Can't Stop Won't Stop meets Girls to the Front in this essential and long overdue history of hip-hop's female pioneers and its enduring stars. Every history of hip-hop previously published, from Jeff Chang's Can't Stop Won't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380663Author George MusgraveFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, University of London

"What is Hip-Hop?" In order to answer this question, author Andrew J. Rausch interviewed 24 individuals whose creative expressions are intimately associated with the world of hip-hop music and culture. Those interviewed include emcees, DJs, producers,...

In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics-in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence,...

Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer. Janelle Monae is all these things and more, making her one of the most fascinating artists to emerge in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416551423Author Sandy DentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Glly - Gallery BooksPublisher Glly - Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

Provincial Headz: British Hip Hop and Critical Regionalism draws upon spatial practice, material culture, human geography, ethnomusicology and cultural theory in order to present an interdisciplinary counter-narrative to that of hip hop as a strictly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606999400Author Ed PiskorFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Hip-Hop en Francais charts the emergence and development of hip-hop culture in France, French Caribbean, Quebec, and Senegal from its origins until today. With essays by renowned hip-hop scholars and a foreword by Marcyliena Morgan, executive director of...

The neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Fourth Ward, Third Ward, and the Southside of Houston, Texas, gave birth to Houston rap, a vibrant music scene that has produced globally recognized artists such as Geto Boys, DJ Screw, Pimp C and Bun B of UGK, Fat Pat,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495088209Author Lin-Manuel MirandaPage Count 64Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 227g

As Hip-Hop first exploded throughout New York City's boroughs and surrounding towns, a new generation was emerging-the first to be raised on the genre. At the center of it all was a collective known as the Juice Crew, led by the charismatic radio...

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the landmark album Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black with this commemorative sequel graphic anthology!Revolution Never Sleeps begins on the familiar backdrop of 1991 and explodes into far-flung futures with a series...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250034816Author Paul EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999212776Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Wax Poetics BooksPublisher Wax Poetics BooksWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

In this groundbreaking book, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar celebrates hip-hop and confronts the cult of authenticity that defines its essential character. Deftly balancing an insider's love of the culture with a scholar's detached critique, he traces hip-hop's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999106907Author Professor GriffFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Taqiyyah MusicPublisher Taqiyyah MusicWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm...

"Few books on popular music treat their subject so comprehensively, with thoughtful attention to ideology, history, and verbal and musical rhetoric. Miyakawa's approach is at once comprehensive and streamlined, making for an especially effective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584235385Author Albert D. PattersonFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, IncWeight(grams) 698g