Rap category: 259 books
Rap - A Beginner's Masterclass
A Guide For Adults to Understand Confusing Rap Lyrics & Culture - Grandparents Included!
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Rap - The Beginner's Masterclass is a guide to rap lyrics, clearly written for readers to understand and learn about hip hop's culture!
Are you confused about what rap music means?
Do you have ambitions to write rap?
Do you, or a family member, want to understand rap and hip...
Black, Blanc, Beur
Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
Rap music was born in America in the early 1980s. Over the last decade it has not only grown in popularity within the United States, with rap music soaring to the top of the music charts, but it has also influenced other cultures around the world. Black, Blanc, Beur is about the emergence and growing...
Chicano Rap
Gender and Violence in the Postindustrial Barrio
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Powered by a driving beat, clever lyrics, and assertive attitudes, rap music and hip hop culture have engrossed American youth since the mid-1980s. Although the first rappers were African Americans, rap and hip hop culture quickly spread to other ethnic groups who have added their own cultural elements...
The Rap Year Book
The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
New York Times Bestseller - Washington Post Bestseller - Pitchfork Book Club selection
The Rap Year Book takes readers on a journey that begins in 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cultural and musical landscape, and comes right up to the present. Shea...
Kanye West Owes Me $300
And Other True Stories from a White Rapper Who Almost Made It Big
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**“Kanye West Owes Me $300 might be the funniest rap memoir ever.” –LA Weekly
After Vanilla Ice, but before Eminem, there was "Hot Karl," the Jewish kid from the L.A. suburbs who became a rap battling legend—and then almost became a star.**
When 12-year old Jensen Karp...
Listening to Rap
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
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...
Pulse of the People
Political Rap Music and Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Hip-Hop music encompasses an extraordinarily diverse range of approaches to politics. Some rap and Hip-Hop artists engage directly with elections and social justice organizations; others may use their platform to call out discrimination, poverty, sexism, racism, police brutality, and other social...
Eminem and the Detroit Rap Scene
White Kid in a Black Music World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
With never before seen photos and interviews and dedicated to the memory of Big Proof, the founder of D12 and Eminem, this book will take you deep into the heart of the Detroit Ghetto with Eminem long before D12 and the Aftermath with D12. With over 100 million albums sold worldwide and Academy Awards,...
The History of Hip Hop
The History of Hip Hop, #2
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
"Discover the second edition of the definitive history of hip hop, and learn how the 80's culture set new trends and broke boundaries forever!"
"Where hip hop transformed from infancy to new culture!"
With the gradual shift from the 1970s disco scene, a new style of music known as hip...
Stare in the Darkness
The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Rap’s critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the “hip-hop mayor” of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail. A growing number of black activists and artists claim that rap and hip-hop...
Nuthin' but a "G" Thang
The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
In the late 1980s, gangsta rap music emerged in urban America, giving voice to—and making money for—a social group widely considered to be in crisis: young, poor, black men. From its local origins, gangsta rap went on to flood the mainstream, generating enormous popularity and profits. Yet the...
by Loren Kajikawa
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness. Sounding Race in Rap Songs argues that rap music allows...
by Ray Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Most people generally view hip hop and rap as being the same. In the book "Hip Hop Vs Rap" the author draws a clear line between the two by explaining in detail what Hip Hop is and what Rap is. Through detail writing, images, and selected quotes, the author not only show the distinction between Hip...
by Fabio Germani
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Soldi. Macchine. Donne. E ancora soldi, macchine e donne: il trionfo del cliché. Con quanta superficialità abbiamo giudicato l’hip hop negli anni, convinti che tutto quello che ne è derivato – la musica, soprattutto – fosse l’esaltazione del superfluo o della visione materiale della vita....