Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop

Chinaka Hodge came of age along with hip-hop--and its influence on her suitors became inextricable from their personal interactions. Form blends with content in Dated Emcees as she examines her love life through the lens of hip-hop's best known orators, characters, archetypes and songs, creating a new and inventive narrative about the music that shaped the craggy heart of a young woman poet, just as it also changed the global landscape of pop.

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"In the old tellings hip-hop was a woman, a certain kind--one needing, even begging to be...

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For Decades Harris Rosen Has Been Asking Fearless Questions Of Hip-Hop's...

This book investigates the discursive and performative strategies employed by Australian Indigenous rappers to make sense of the world and establish a position of authority over their identity and place in society. Focusing on the aesthetics, the language, and the performativity of Hip Hop, this book pays attention to the life stance, the philosophy, and the spiritual beliefs of Australian Indigenous Hip Hop artists as glocal producers and consumers. With Hip Hop as its main point of analysis, the author investigates, interrogates, and challenges categories and preconceived ideas about the...

SSM Magazine "Sexy but Classy" A Model Pictorial

In the premier issue of SSM, we introduce new model; Aleshia Haute. Her name says it all; this Charlotte beauty has an amazing personality with a body to match. SSM (So Seductive Models) Magazine is a new medium designed to introduce and promote gorgeous models to the world and entertainment industry. Not to be confused with your typical men's magazine, SSM will not only be available in print but in eBook and Hardcover as well also known as our Collector's Edition.

SSM was founded by Father and Son team; Publisher & Author;...

Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed is an extended photo essay with more than two hundred images that represent a mid-career retrospective of B+'s photography of hip-hop music and its influences. Taking its name from the unplayed sounds that exist between beats in a rhythm, the book creates a visual music, putting photos next to each other to evoke unseen images and create new histories. Like a DJ seamlessly overlapping and entangling disparate musics, Cross brings together LA Black Arts poetry and Jamaican dub, Brazilian samba and Ethiopian jazz, Cuban timba and Colombian cumbia. He...

Being a successful musician was simply never enough for the three kings of hip-hop. With a combined net worth of well over $2 billion, Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-Z lifted themselves from childhood adversity into tycoon territory, amassing a level of fame and wealth that not only outshone all other contemporary hip-hop artists, but currently makes them the three richest American musicians, period. Yet their fortunes have little to do with...

A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itselfby band members ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Spike Jonze, Wes...