Collective Participation and Audience Engagement in Rap Music

ISBN-13: 9783030253769 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 150 str.

David Diallo

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Call-and-Response in Rap Music

3.“Rock the House:” Emceeing and Collective Participation in Rap Music’s Formative Years (1974–1978)

4. “Keeping It Real Live!” Maintaining Collective Participation on Records

5. “Coming to You Live and Direct!”: Performing Liveness and Immediacy on Record

6. Intertextuality in Rap Lyrics

7. From the Stage to the Booth to the Stage: Sustaining Collective Engagement During Live Performance

8. Rap Music and Singing Along to the N-word

9. Discussing Collective Participation and Audience Engagement with Sugarhill Gang’s Master Gee

10. Conclusion

O autorze

David Diallo is an Associate Professor at The University of Bordeaux, France. His research interests focus on rap music, folklore, sociology of art and urban ethnography. He has been a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, Memorial University of Newfoundland and New York University and contributed to the Journal of American Folklore and Ethnologies. He is the author of the Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg article in Icons of Hip Hop: an Encyclopedia of the Music, Movement and Culture (2007) and of The Bronx and Los Angeles entries in Hip Hop in America: a Regional Guide (2009).