The Cambridge companion to hip-hop

The Cambridge companion to hip-hop / edited by Justin A. Williams.

It has been more than thirty-five years since the first commercial recordings of hip-hop music were made. This Companion, written by renowned scholars and industry professionals reflects the passion and scholarly activity occurring in the new generation of hip-hop studies. It covers a diverse range...

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Other Authors: Williams, Justin A. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
Series:Cambridge companions to music.
Subjects:
Rap (Music) > History and criticism.
Hip-hop > History.
Rap (Music)
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The interdisciplinary world of hip-hop studies / Justin A. Williams
  • Part I: Elements.
  • MC origins : rap and spoken word poetry / Alice Price-Styles ; Hip-hop dance / Imani Kai Johnson ; Hip-hop visual arts / Ivor Miller ; Djs and turntabilism / Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen ; The fifth element : knowledge / Travis L. Gosa ; Hip-hop and religion : from the mosque to the church / Christina Zanfagna ; Hip-hop theater and performance / Nicole Hodges Persley
  • Part II: Methods and concepts.
  • Lyrics and flow in rap music / Oliver Kautny ; The musical analysis of hip-hop / Kyle Adams ; The glass : hip-hop production / Chris Tabron ; Hip-hop and racial identification : an (auto)ethnographic perspective / Anthony Kwame Harrison ; Thirty years of rapsploitation : hip-hop culture in American cinema / Geoff Harkness ; Barbz and Kings : explorations of gender and sexuality in hip-hop / Regina N. Bradley ; Hip-hop and politics / Christopher Deis ; Intertextuality, sampling, and copyright / Justin A. Williams
  • Part III: Case studies.
  • Nerdcore hip-hop / Amanda Sewell ; Framing gender, race, and hip-hop in Boyz N the hood, Do the right thing and Slam / Adam Haupt ; Japanese hip-hop : alternative stories / Noriko Manabe ; Council estate of mind : the British rap tradition and London's hip-hop scene / Richard Bramwell ; Cuban hip-hop / Sujatha Fernandes ; Senegalese hip-hop / Ali Colleen Neff ; Off the grid : instrumental hip-hop and experimentalism after the golden age / Mike D'Errico ; Stylized Turkish German as the resistance vernacular of German hip-hop / Brenna Reinhart Byrd ; "Bringin' '88 back" : historicizing rap music's greatest year / Loren Kajikawa ; "Where ya at?" : hip-hop's political locations in the Obama era / Michael P. Jeffries.

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