Signifying Rappers
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Author |
: David Foster Wallace |
Publisher |
: Back Bay Books |
Total Pages |
: 175 |
Release |
: 2013-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316401111 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316401110 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Signifying Rappers by : David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop." The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom. Signifying Rappers issued a fan's challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: Could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised? Back in print at last, Signifying Rappers is a rare record of a city and a summer by two great thinkers, writers, and friends. With a new foreword by Mark Costello on his experience writing with David Foster Wallace, this rerelease cannot be missed.
Author |
: Adam Bradley |
Publisher |
: Civitas Books |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2017-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465094417 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465094414 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Book of Rhymes by : Adam Bradley
If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners. Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.
Author |
: Sacha Jenkins |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: 2014-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466866973 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466866977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists by : Sacha Jenkins
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists is more popular than racism! Hip hop is huge, and it's time someone wrote it all down. And got it all right. With over 25 aggregate years of interviews, and virtually every hip hop single, remix and album ever recorded at their disposal, the highly respected Ego Trip staff are the ones to do it. The Book of Rap Lists runs the gamut of hip hop information. This is an exhaustive, indispensable and completely irreverent bible of true hip hip knowledge.
Author |
: Houston A. Baker |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2013-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226156293 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022615629X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by : Houston A. Baker
"Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. . . . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance may well become Afro-America's 'studying manual.'"—Tonya Bolden, New York Times Book Review
Author |
: Mark Costello |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106016251859 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Signifying Rappers by : Mark Costello
The author of "Infinite Jest" and his co-writer discuss rap and popular culture, power, money, racial politics, and language in the first book to seriously consider rap and its position as a vital force in American culture. "Brilliantly written . . . (with) great wit, insight, and in-your-face energy".--"Review of Contemporary Fiction".
Author |
: Derrick Parker |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2007-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429907781 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429907789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Notorious C.O.P. by : Derrick Parker
Throughout his career, Derrick Parker worked on some of the biggest criminal cases in rap history, from the shooting at Club New York, where Derrick personally escorted Jennifer Lopez to police headquarters, to the first shooting of Tupac Shakur. Always straddling the fence between "po-po" and NYPD outsider, Derrick threatened police tradition to try to get the cases solved. He was the first detective to interview an informant offering a detailed account of Biggie Smalls's murder. He protected one of the only surviving eyewitnesses to the Jam Master Jay murder and knows the identity of the killers as well as the motivation behind the shooting. Notorious C.O.P. reveals hip-hop crimes that never made the paper—like the robbing of Foxy Brown and the first Hot 97 shooting—and answers some lingering questions about murders that have remained unsolved. The book that both the NYPD and the hip-hop community don't want you to read, Notorious C.O.P. is the first insider look at the real links between crime and hip-hop and the inefficiencies that have left some of the most widely publicized murders in entertainment history unsolved.
Author |
: Thomas Kochman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 452 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015001648008 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rappin' and Stylin' Out by : Thomas Kochman
Author |
: Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195136470 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195136470 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Signifying Monkey by : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
A groundbaking work of enduring influence. The Signifying Monkey illuminates the relationship between the African and African American vernacular traditions and literature. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., uncovers a unique system for interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World. This superb twenty-fifth-anniversary edition features a new preface and introduction by Gates that reflect on the book's genesis and its continuing relevance for today's culture, as well as a new afterword written by the noted critic W.J.T. Mitchell. --Book Jacket.
Author |
: Clifford Thompson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1440132690 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781440132698 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Signifying Nothing by : Clifford Thompson
The novel is set in Washington, D.C., in 1979 and focuses on the Hobbs family. Lester Hobbs, nineteen years old, is mentally retarded and mute ― until the day he suddenly begins to rap at the top of his lungs about life with his parents and older siblings. That development has a profound effect on the rest of the family, whose members struggle to figure out what it means, for Lester and themselves. Lester's wise-cracking brother, Greg, the middle child, who has long alternated between being protective of Lester and being jealous of the attention Lester receives, tries with a spectacular lack of success to profit from his brother's new ability. Lester and Greg's sister, Sherrie ― bright, pretty, responsible, and aloof ― tries to learn the medical explanation for Lester's condition, which leads her to an affair with George Greer, a brilliant, married, womanizing neurologist. Meanwhile, Lester's mother, Maddie, tries to adjust emotionally to the change in her son, and Pat, the father, works to figure out the right course of action once the cause of Lester's rapping is revealed.
Author |
: Dodie Bellamy |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2021-10-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781635901597 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1635901596 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Letters of Mina Harker by : Dodie Bellamy
Bellamy's debut novel revives the central female character from Bram Stoker's Dracula and imagines her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s. Hypocrisy's not the problem, I think, it's allegory the breeding ground of paranoia. The act of reading into--how does one know when to stop? KK says that Dodie has the advantage because she's physical and I'm "only psychic." ... The truth is: everyone is adopted. My true mother wore a turtleneck and a long braid down her back, drove a Karmann Ghia, drank Chianti in dark corners, fucked Gregroy Corso ... --Dodie Bellamy, The Letters of Mina Harker First published in 1998, Dodie Bellamy's debut novel The Letters of Mina Harker sought to resuscitate the central female character from Bram Stoker's Dracula and reimagine her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s--a woman not unlike Dodie Bellamy. Harker confesses the most intimate details of her relationships with four different men in a series of letters. Vampirizing Mina Harker, Bellamy turns the novel into a laboratory: a series of attempted transmutations between the two women in which the real story occurs in the gaps and the slippages. Lampooning the intellectual theory-speak of that era, Bellamy's narrator fights to inhabit her own sexuality despite feelings of vulnerability and destruction. Stylish but ruthlessly unpretentious, The Letters of Mina Harker was Bellamy's first major claim to the literary space she would come to inhabit.