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

Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes locally inflected. After the Soviet Union fell, hip hop became popular in urban environments in the region, but it has often been stigmatized as inauthentic, due to an apparent lack of connection to African American historical roots and black identity. Originally strongly influenced by aesthetics from the US, hip hop in Central and Eastern...

Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes locally inflected. After the Soviet Union fell, hip hop became popular in urban environments in the region, but it has often been stigmatized as inauthentic, due to an apparent lack of connection to African American historical roots and black identity. Originally strongly influenced by aesthetics from the US, hip hop in Central and Eastern...

The Book of Five Cyphers is a comprehensive guide on the essential tenets of bboying and bgirling. Modeled after The Book of Five Rings by legendary Japanese samurai Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Cyphers relates each of the core elements--Earth, Water, Wind, Fire--to a particular aspect of bboying, covering training fundamentals, energy and movement, battle strategy, and other breaking philosophies.

This revolutionary piece combines a collective understanding of bboying and bgirling with a community platform, where other dancers share their own...

Spring Forward is a collection of photographs, artwork, and writings by Erick Elliott. Elliott is the producer and member of the Brooklyn based hip hop group the Flatbush Zombies, an artist, and photographer. In commenting on Spring Forward, Elliott notes, "I've worked on this book subconsciously (all of my life), but it was an intense process that spread across a time span of about 4 years. In hopes of bringing hope to those who are hopeless, the ultimate goal of Spring Forward was to transcend through ego and exist on its own." Elliott is a prolific...

Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam...

A riveting historical account of how two hustlers invested everything in one 10 years old and changed the music business, forever

Behind the Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and feel of the energy that surged through music in the 90s and 2000s. It presents exclusive original interviews as an honest record, directly from authentic creative forces, and is a distinct historical document as close to the truth as one can get.

Magnolia: Home of tha Soldiers, the 9th book in the series, is a look at how Cash Money...

The book, Hip Hop Ain't Dead: It's Livin' In the White House, is about a man, Barack Obama, who made history. By first, becoming the first Black President in the history of the United States, and second, shattering the mold of conventional politics by making hip hop culture his political ally. Obama's public relationship with hip hop throughout his presidency caused just as much of an explosion of public dialogue as his place in history as the first Black American President.

The author Sanford Richmond details moments of his childhood as a hip hop fan, witnessing--and even...

A fascinating genuine narrative formed in the crucible of Golden Age Hip-Hop mindfulness.

Behind the Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and feel of the energy that surged through music in the 90s and 2000s. It presents exclusive original interviews as an honest record, directly from authentic creative forces, and is a distinct historical document as close to the truth as one can get.

New York State of Mind 1.0, the 7th book in the series, provides you with a true flavour of the...