Sounding race in rap songs / Loren Kajikawa.
Sounding race in rap songs / Loren Kajikawa.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Call Numbers
G 2016/1765
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xi, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
"Rapper's delight" : from genre-less to new genre -- "Rebel without a pause" : public enemy revolutionizes the break -- "Let me ride" : gangsta rap's drive into the popular mainstream -- "My name is" : signifying whiteness, rearticulating race -- Conclusion : sounding race in the twenty-first centur...
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Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
[2015]
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness. Sounding Race in Rap Songs argues that rap music allows us not only to see but also to hear how mass-mediat...
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Full title
Sounding race in rap songs / Loren Kajikawa.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191), discography (pages 179-180), filmography (page 181), and index.
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Date Copyright
©2015.
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Call Numbers
G 2016/1765
Record Identifier
74VKVpQyADyl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVpQyADyl
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ISBN
0520283996 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520283985 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520283988 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520283992 (pbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
782.421649
MMS ID
991023988308102626
