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…
Mediated Girlhoods, is an anthology devoted to scholarship on girls' media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes studies of girls' media representations, girls' media consumption, and girls' media production. In an attempt to push research on girls' media cult…
"Rebel Music is an important, one-of-a-kind book that takes readers through fun, radical, educational chapters examining Hip Hop and Punk songs, with each section addressing a particular social issue. Rebel Music values the experiences found in both movements as cultural capital…
Young blacks born between 1965 and 1984 belong to the first generation to have grown up in post-segregation America. In this book Bakari Kitwana offers a sobering look at his generation's disproportionate incarceration and unemployment rates, as well as the collapse of its gende…
Young blacks born between 1965 and 1984 belong to the first generation to have grown up in post-segregation America. In this book Bakari Kitwana offers a sobering look at his generation's disproportionate incarceration and unemployment rates, as well as the collapse of its gende…
De twee nog levende Beastie Boys, Mike D (Michael Diamond),en Ad Rock (Adam Horovitz), wisselen elkaar af in het vertellen van anekdotes. Ze zijn op chronologische volgorde gezet, van hun jonge jaren op school, het verleidelijk en vunzige Manhattan van de jaren '70, tot hun alle…
An exploration into the history of electronic music.
The purpose of this dissertation study was twofold. First, an examination of Hiphop culture as a site for educational pedagogy by extending the conversation beyond commercial rap music and examining practices associated with the whole of Hiphop culture, which includes dj'ing, em…
Hip hop and philosophy: rhyme 2 reason
by Shelby, Tommie, Darby, Derrick
fromPopular culture and philosophy
From youth violence, to the impact of high stakes educational testing, to editorial hand wringing over the moral failures of hip-hop culture, young people of color are often portrayed as gang affiliated, "troubled," and ultimately, dangerous. The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back e…
