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Droppin’ Science : Critical Essays On Rap Music And Hip Hop Culture

  • Droppin' Science : Critical Essays On Rap Music And Hip  Hop Culture
  • Title

    • Critical Perspectives On The Past
  • Attribution

    edited by William Eric Perkins
  • Publication Details

    Book, Temple University Press, 1996
  • Availability

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      (UPPER LEVEL)  ML3531 .D77 1996         DUE 04-28-09

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  • Description

    These wide-ranging essays discuss white crossover, women in rap, gangsta rap, message rap, raunch rap, Latino rap, black nationalism, and other elements of rap and hip hop culture like dance and fashion. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
  • Author

  • Subject

  • Places in this work

  • Contents

    • 1. The rap attack: an introduction / William Eric Perkins
    • 2. Women writin’ rappin’ breakin’ / Nancy Guevara
    • 3. Rap’s latino sabor / Mandalit del Barco
    • 4. Puerto rocks : New York ricans stake their claim / Juan Flores
    • 5. Kickin’ reality, kickin’ ballistics: gangsta rap and postindustrial Los Angeles / Robin D. G. Kelley
    • 6. Making the strong survive: the contours and contradictions of message rap / Ernest Allen, Jr.
    • 7. Who wants to see ten niggers play basketball? / Armond White
    • 8. Hip hop 101 / Robert Farris Thompson
    • 9. Dance in hip hop culture / Katrina Hazzard-Donald
    • 10. Hidden politics: discursive and institutional policing of rap music / Tricia Rose
    • 11. Youth’s global village: an epilogue / William Eric Perkins
  • ISBN

    • 1566393612
    • 1566393620
  • LCCN

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