Music-Genres & Styles-Rap & Hip Hop

"K for the Way" explores writing, rhetoric, and literacy from the perspective of the Hip Hop DJ. Todd Craig, a DJ himself, establishes and investigates the function of DJ rhetoric and literacy, illuminating the DJ as a fruitful example for (re)envisioning approaches to writing,...

It has been more than thirty-five years since the first commercial recordings of hip-hop music were made. This Companion, written by renowned scholars and industry professionals reflects the passion and scholarly activity occurring in the new generation of hip-hop studies. It covers a diverse...

Greeting Readers!In this month's issue of Pump It Up Magazine, we are proud to celebrate not only the incredible journey of Carter Kaya, the visionary leader of the French musical empire Delit Music France, but also the contributions of black artists, writers, and performers...

I'm The White Guy - The Snoop Dogg Edition details the evolution of Soren Baker's relationship with global entertainment icon Snoop Dogg. Baker began listening to Snoop's work in 1992. Baker first met Snoop and interviewed him in 1997 and developed a friendship with...

This book is a journey back though time focusing on Kings County's (Brooklyn) Contribution to Hip Hop, a culture created by inner-city youth enduring the hardships of poverty. An incredible expedition into gang fights, train yards, block parties and sewing needles. Defining the term...

In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba's hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island's ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways...

Rap music is often seen as a Black secular response to pressing issues of our time. Yet, like spirituals, the blues, and gospel music, rap has deep connections to African American religious traditions.Noise and Spirit explores the diverse religious dimensions of rap stemming from...

Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres - jazz, rock, and hip-hop - in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from modernization to globalization. The political...

The Psychology of Hip Hop is a provocative examination of the world of Hip Hop, and how this music genre has shaped the American landscape. Going where no one else dares, The Psychology of Hip Hop effectively explains behaviors of some of the best...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of...

An extended study of the writings of Lil' Kim, the multi-platinum selling Hip Hop artist. Examines Lil' Kim's anti-sexist, gender-defiant and ultra-erotic verse alongside issues of race and the politics of imprisonment. This is the first study to apply the tools of literary criticism...

Teacher Evaluation in Music: A Guide for Music Teachers in the U. S. aims to help music teachers navigate the controversial terrain of teacher evaluation. Rather than entering the debate on policy divorced from practice, this book is intended as a pragmatic approach to...

Take a break from hustling - and start puzzling! What better way to spend your free time than to piece together your favorite hip hop artists in this 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. Some of hip hop's most important figures from East to West are...

Whether it's diamond-encrusted grills, oversized "truck" style chains, bust-down Rolex and Patek Philippe watches or a Tiffany necklace, jewelry is a cornerstone of hip-hop culture. Glittering, blinged-out jewels are the shining statement of a collective identity: unapologetic, charismatic, and street savvy. Spanning the history...

Describes the history of hip hop and rap music, starting with the New York block parties hosted by early DJs. Includes stories of the first rap recording by the Sugarhill Gang, the rise of turntablism, sampling, and how Run DMC and the Beastie Boys...

-Ross Schwartzman aka DJ Ross One---Introduction.Author: Dj Ross OneISBN-10: 1576877752ISBN-13: 9781576877753Publisher: powerHouse BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2015Pages: 276Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.40lbsSize: 7.70h x 9.70w x 1.10d

The Gospel of Hip Hop: First Instrument, the first book from the I Am Hip Hop, is the philosophical masterwork of KRS ONE. Set in the format of the Christian Bible, this 800-plus-page opus is a life-guide manual for members of Hip Hop Kulture...

The late hip-hop pioneer, seminal graffiti writer, and iconoclast contemporary artist Rammellzee--a legend in his own time to his peers--was a profoundly transformative and influential figure across the art, graffiti, and music worlds. Rammellzee was an enigmatic yet key figure in the nexus of...

Avtar Simrit is a prolific Hip Hop lyricist and has written hundreds of songs over the years. She first started recording and releasing albums under the name Nilotic; and those lyrics are collected in Volume One. Nilotic underwent a spiritual transformation which resulted in...

This is The Hip-Hop Coloring Book Queen Bees Edition All of your favorite female rappers and Hip-Hop artists Put crosses or diamonds onto full page nails and make your own salon designs Five pages of "what'd day say?" featuring your favorite rappers and a...

This book is a continuation of Christopher Bonilla's other poetic literature, Running Lips, and Lyrical Righteousness. Water, Wine, or Coffee has rich and exciting poetry that invites the reader to use their imagination and insight into understanding each poem. The content of the poetry...

* 2018 "12 best books to give this holiday season" --TODAY (Elizabeth Acevedo)* A "Best Book of 2017" --Rolling Stone (2018), NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The...

A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identity and history. Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when nearly four decades...

A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identity and history. Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when nearly four decades...

Marcus Lakee Edwards "Lil Keke \Da Don Lil Keke well known as a southern hip hop pioneer a texas legend and the true architect of the Houston hip hop sound & culture With a career that has stood the test of time & has...

(DJ Instruction). Do you want to scratch, but don't know where to start? Scratching Made Easy Turntable Method Book 1: A Guide to Scratching is a beginning method book for DJs and music educators. It's for you-the Scratch DJ.The playing of many Scratch DJs...

"Lewis has composed an observant and urban B-boy's rites of passage . . . a hiphop bildungsroman told in prose full of buoyancy and bounce."--Greg Tate, author of Flyboy in the Buttermilk Scars of the Soul is a confessional, stylistic account (in the Joan...

Author: Avtar SimritISBN-10: 1737725797ISBN-13: 9781737725794Publisher: Apocalyptic RhymesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2022Pages: 742Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.63d

The future looks bleak. The present feels hopeless. Yet, for two young African-American brothers from the slums of New York City, failure is not an option. The reader will experience a once-in-a-lifetime, true story of how courage, desperation, and a love for Hip-Hop shaped...

Celebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all time with this vibrantly illustrated anthology, featuring 50 of the most lauded, controversial, and iconic hip-hop albums! From underground roots to mainstream popularity, hip-hop's influence on...

For young men in urban Tanzania, barbershops are sites of the struggle to earn a living amid economic crisis. With names like Brooklyn Barber House and Boyz II Men, these workplaces are also nodes in an explosion of popular culture that appropriates images drawn...

How do Muslims who grew up after September 11 balance their love for hip-hop with their devotion to Islam? How do they live the piety and modesty called for by their faith while celebrating an art form defined, in part, by overt sexuality, violence,...

The style of flashy entertainment first made routine by Motown became the form of Soul music that dominated throughout the 1970s. Disco changed the beat, but not the basic show business emphasis on surface and form rather than content and meaning. At the same...

The instant New York Times bestseller and "inspiring and vulnerable" (Trevor Noah) memoir from Bobby Hall, the multiplatinum recording artist known as Logic and the #1 bestselling author of Supermarket. This Bright Future is a raw and unfiltered journey into the life and mind...

Tupac is a hip-hop icon. In the years since his death, he has sold more records than at the peak of his career. The first black artist to have become as legendary as an Elvis or a James Dean, his reputation rests on a...

Rapcore explores the evolution of the 21st century's preeminent genre of heavy rock, Nu-Metal. Author Dick Porter defines the origins of the fusion of hip hop, punk, reggae, and rock that drives this popular sound. He discusses early innovators such as George Clinton and...

Noted entertainment writer Brian Robb opens a window onto the life of talented actor and rap artist Will Smith, in a new photobiography sure to please his many fans. Smith's talents emerged at an early age. At 12, he teamed up with a neighborhood...

RAP. The first thing you will learn from this book is that the word RAP in the music genre means "Rhythm and Poetry." Today, in its full capacity, it's a lost art form. In a world of legendary urban street poets and great rappers...

Now a global and transnational phenomenon, hip hop culture continues to affect and be affected by the institutional, cultural, religious, social, economic and political landscape of American society and beyond. Over the past two decades, numerous disciplines have taken up hip hop culture for...

A special collector's edition highlighting the life, music and filmography of DMX. This is a must have collector's item. Rarely do we encounter an artist and human being such as DMX. He blessed us with so much while enduring so much himself. There will...

This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM's resurgence and Madlib's reluctant return from avant-garde jazz to hip-hop. Written from the alternating...

Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas. The music itself was an intoxication of beats, bass, and voice. It emerged amid the social tensions of the late 1980s, and as part of...

In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African students, African immigrants, and local populations in eastern Ukraine. Adriana N. Helbig combines ethnographic...

In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African students, African immigrants, and local populations in eastern Ukraine. Adriana N. Helbig combines ethnographic...

"They would transform your whole look into a superstar." -- -- Nas The exiting story about how the street wear pioneers Shirt Kings created a style that would define hip hop culture in the 1980s and beyond. Jamaica, Queens, New York in the mid...

Casual listeners and die-hard purists, test your hip-hop knowledge in this 300-card trivia spinoff from the live game show, The Questions--just in time for hip-hop's 50th birthday! Which Judd Apatow film stars Eminem as himself? Which Broadway Musical was sampled by Jay-Z in his...

Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapper as a Black, masculine, heterosexual, cisgender man who enacts a narrative of struggle and success. In Queer Voices in...

Cultural criticism and pop culture history intertwine in this important book, which dissects how hip hop has sidelined Black women's identity and emotional well-being. A "ride-or-die chick" is a woman who holds down her family and community. She's your girl that you can call...

Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune--while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path. Ice-T rose to fame in the...

What does sovereignty sound like? Sonic Sovereignty considers how contemporary Indigenous musicians champion self-determination through musical expression in Canada and the United States. The framework of "sonic sovereignty" connects self-definition, collective determination, and Indigenous land rematriation to the immediate and long-lasting effects of expressive...