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This short essay contrasts Tupac Shakur and Lecrae and discusses the struggles of the latter.
Author : Richie Cooley
Publisher : Richie Cooley
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2022-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1005324298
This short essay contrasts Tupac Shakur and Lecrae and discusses the struggles of the latter.
Author : Michael Berry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 1315315866
Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both in the United States and around the world. Listening to Rap: An Introduction enables students to understand the historical context, cultural impact, and unique musical characteristics of this essential genre. Each chapter explores a key topic in the study of rap music from the 1970s to today, covering themes such as race, gender, commercialization, politics, and authenticity. Synthesizing the approaches of scholars from a variety of disciplines—including music, cultural studies, African-American studies, gender studies, literary criticism, and philosophy—Listening to Rap tracks the evolution of rap and hip hop while illustrating its vast cultural significance. The text features more than 60 detailed listening guides that analyze the musical elements of songs by a wide array of artists, from Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash to Nicki Minaj, Jay-Z, Kanye West, and more. A companion website showcases playlists of the music discussed in each chapter. Rooted in the understanding that cultural context, music, and lyrics combine to shape rap’s meaning, the text assumes no prior knowledge. For students of all backgrounds, Listening to Rap offers a clear and accessible introduction to this vital and influential music.
Author : Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 933 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
This set covers all aspects of international hip hop as expressed through music, art, fashion, dance, and political activity. Hip hop music has gone from being a marginalized genre in the late 1980s to the predominant style of music in America, the UK, Nigeria, South Africa, and other countries around the world. Hip Hop around the World includes more than 450 entries on global hip hop culture as it includes music, art, fashion, dance, social and cultural movements, organizations, and styles of hip hop. Virtually every country is represented in the text. Most of the entries focus on music styles and notable musicians and are unique in that they discuss the sound of various hip hop styles and musical artists' lyrical content, vocal delivery, vocal ranges, and more. Many additional entries deal with dance styles, such as breakdancing or b-boying/b-girling, popping/locking, clowning, and krumping, and cultural movements, such as black nationalism, Nation of Islam, Five Percent Nation, and Universal Zulu Nation. Country entries take into account politics, history, language, authenticity, and personal and community identification. Special care is taken to draw relationships between people and entities such as mentor-apprentice, producer-musician, and more.
Author : Christopher M. Driscoll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1351010832
Kendrick Lamar has established himself at the forefront of contemporary hip-hop culture. Artistically adventurous and socially conscious, he has been unapologetic in using his art form, rap music, to address issues affecting black lives while also exploring subjects fundamental to the human experience, such as religious belief. This book is the first to provide an interdisciplinary academic analysis of the impact of Lamar’s corpus. In doing so, it highlights how Lamar’s music reflects current tensions that are keenly felt when dealing with the subjects of race, religion and politics. Starting with Section 80 and ending with DAMN., this book deals with each of Lamar’s four major projects in turn. A panel of academics, journalists and hip-hop practitioners show how religion, in particular black spiritualties, take a front-and-center role in his work. They also observe that his astute and biting thoughts on race and culture may come from an African American perspective, but many find something familiar in Lamar’s lyrical testimony across great chasms of social and geographical difference. This sophisticated exploration of one of popular culture’s emerging icons reveals a complex and multi faceted engagement with religion, faith, race, art and culture. As such, it will be vital reading for anyone working in religious, African American and hip-hop studies, as well as scholars of music, media and popular culture.
Author : Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592137903
A provocative analysis of the new contours of black nationalism and feminism in America.
Author : Carter Godwin Woodson
Publisher : ReadaClassic.com
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 1969
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Mwenda Ntarangwi
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Adolescent psychology
ISBN : 0252076532
Hip hop music that empowers and engages youth in East Africa
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Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1613797729
Author : Robert Jourdain
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN :
At the evolution of music and introduces surprising new concepts of memory and perception, knowledge and attention, motion and emotion, all at work as music takes hold of us. Along the way, a fascinating cast of characters brings Jourdain's narrative to vivid life: "idiots savants" who absorb whole pieces on a single hearing, composers who hallucinate entire compositions, a psychic who claimed to take dictation from long-dead composers, and victims of brain damage who.
Author : Juanita Bynum
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1591858038
A bestselling author shows readers how to go beyond Jesus' model prayer in Matthew 6 into the prophetic patter of prayer as revealed through Moses' tabernacle in the wilderness.