"Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when four decades of martial law under the Chinese National Party ended. As a multicultural, multilingual society with a complicated history of migration and colonizatio…
Rap and hip hop, the music and culture rooted in African American urban life, bloomed in the late 1970s on the streets and in the playgrounds of New York City. This critical collection serves as a historical guide to rap and hip hop from its beginnings to the evolution of its ma…
A memoir by the prolific rapper and hip-hop artist Gucci Mane traces his unlikely path to stardom and personal rebirth, discussing his early years in Alabama and Georgia, his activities as a drug dealer, the experiences that inspired his influential street anthems and his recent…
In the late 80s, a group of high school dropouts, drug dealers, and ex-cons spoke out against racial injustice and police brutality. They did it through hip-hop. Their explosive popularity put their Los Angeles neighborhood of Compton on the map. They gave a voice to disenfranch…
"Despite its global popularity, rap has received little scholarly attention in terms of its poetic features, perhaps because rap is so demonstrative and powerful, or because poetry scholars have been slow to recognize rap's poetic worth, or uncertainty about its legitimacy as a …
"At the end of the Cold War, America's power became unmatched, its overwhelming military might and economic dominance defining the threshold of cultural existence. This book looks at how rap and metal, the two most pervasive popular music forms of the 1990s, have been highly eng…
"At the end of the Cold War, America's power became unmatched, its overwhelming military might and economic dominance defining the threshold of cultural existence. This book looks at how rap and metal, the two most pervasive popular music forms of the 1990s, have been highly eng…
"Examines the history and contributions of hip hop to American and global culture"
