Is hip-hop dead? : the past, present, and future of America's most wanted music / Mickey Hess.
Is hip-hop dead? : the past, present, and future of America's most wanted music / Mickey Hess.
Is hip-hop dead? : the past, present, and future of America's most wanted music / Mickey Hess.
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Publisher
Westport, Conn. : Praeger ; Oxford : Harcourt Education [distributor], 2007.
Date
2007.
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N782.42164/196
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English
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viii, 196 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
The rap career --The rap life -- The rap persona -- Sampling and stealing -- White rappers -- Hip-hop, whiteness, and parody.
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Publisher
Westport, Conn. : Praeger ; Oxford : Harcourt Education [distributor], 2007.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
2007.
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"Recently, 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. The album is driven by nostalgia for a mythically pure moment in hip hop's history, when the music was driven by artistic passion instead of base commercialism. In the course of this same album, ho...
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Is hip-hop dead? : the past, present, and future of America's most wanted music / Mickey Hess.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N782.42164/196
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74VKzXdGwqAM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzXdGwqAM
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0275994619 (hbk.) :
9780275994617 (hbk.) :
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782.421649
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991023475869702626
