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Title: Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music/Culture) by Tricia Rose ISBN: 0-8195-6275-0 Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Thorough
Comment: Hip Hop is founded on the valorization--rather than villification--of recontextualization, revision, and redaction. In a examplary work of musical and cultural studies scholarship, Rose traces the ways prior black musical/oral traditions, technological advances, and sexism undergird the discourse (just to mention a couple of the lens through which she takes on rap). The work highly accessible to hip hoppers non hip hoppers alike, furthermore. Finally, it is to Rose's benefit that she comes from an "insider's" vantage point, giving the text a genuine concern for where the music comes from, finds itself, and is indefatigably headed towards.
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential! Rich!
Comment: Tricia Rose details the Hip-Hop Culture - and its beauty and depth - in this book I call "essential for Hip-Hoppers". For example: I'm writing 'bout Brazilian hip-hop and "Black Noise" cleared many doubts I had on hystoric, artistic, and politic aspects of the 'Culture of Streetz'. Another contribution that elevates this 'Bible of Hip-Hop' is the way Tricia Rose writes. The words flow natural, with many rich informations reduced in a very agradable text. If you don't like this book, you'll never understand the 'Black Noise' of this new millenium! Peace!
Rating: 3
Summary: powerful topic: execution?
Comment: I read this book as a compulsory action for the 'Poetry of Rap' course in which I am currently enrolled at a major university. As a narrative and dialectic of black culture, or rather a single faction of black culture, this book is powerful and informative, providing analysis of many, many social thinkers of the Black Arts and later movements as well as Rose's perspective(s) on the developments of the culture. However, the execution of this text, ostensibly an academic account, is weakened by a diffuse structure, imprecise diction (beyond that necessitated by dealing with a topic heretofore untreated in academic circles with any rigor) and atrocious editing. I highly recommend the text, but by the same token recommend it with a disclaimer: hear why she says, and not what she says.
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Title: Hip Hop America by Nelson George ISBN: 0140280227 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Droppin' Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture (Critical Perspectives on the Past) by William Eric Perkins ISBN: 1566393620 Publisher: Temple Univ Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture by Bakari Kitwana ISBN: 0465029795 Publisher: BasicCivitas Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture) by Russell A. Potter ISBN: 0791426262 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop (Music/Culture) by Murray Forman ISBN: 0819563978 Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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