From Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message," to Jay-Z, Diddy, and 50 Cent, "Hip Hop Culture" is the first comprehensive reference work to focus on one of the most influential cultural phenomena of our time. Scholarly and streetwise, backed by statistics, documents, and research, it recounts three decades of Hip Hop's evolution, highlighting its defining events, recordings, personalities, movements, and ideas, as well as society's response.
How did an inner-city subculture, all but dismissed in the early 1980s, become the ruler of the world's airwaves and iPods? Who are...
From Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message," to Jay-Z, Diddy, and 50 Cent, "Hip Hop Culture" is the first comprehensive reference w...
