Rap & Hip Hop

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592218370Author P. Khalil SaucierFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 483g

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) 573gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice documents and analyzes the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse...

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...

Over the course of the twentieth century, African Americans in New Orleans helped define the genres of jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, and funk. In recent decades, younger generations of New Orleanians have created a rich and dynamic local rap scene, which...

Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapper as a Black, masculine, heterosexual, cisgender man who enacts a narrative of struggle and success. In...

How Music Empowers argues that empowerment is the key to unlocking the long-standing mystery of how music moves us. Drawing upon cutting-edge research in embodied cognitive science, psychology, and cultural studies, the book provides a new way of...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683968894Author Ed PiskorFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

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...

On the tenth anniversary of his death, The Dirty Version is the first biography of hip hop superstar and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol' Dirty Bastard, to be written by someone from his inner circle: his right-hand man and best friend, Buddha...

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...

At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a...

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...

"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 9781600251191Author Curtiss KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Maurice BassettPublisher Maurice BassettWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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...

Sonic Rebellions combines theory and practice to consider contemporary uses of sound in the context of politics, philosophy, and protest, by exploring the relationship between sound and social justice, with particular attention to sonic methodologies not...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358494881Author Marcus J MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

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...

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)...

A history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture.Book InformationISBN...

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...

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

The origin story of hip-hop-one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx-has become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full story remains to be told. In vibrant prose, he combines...