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Foundation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

Foundation

1. Introduction. 2. Getting Your Foundation: Pedagogy. 3. B-Boy Text: Aesthetics. 4. Crews. 5. I hate b-boys - that's why I break: Battling. 6. Like old folk songs handed down from generation to generation: history, canon, and community in B-boy culture. 7. If Breaking came out of Uprock, then Hip-Hop didn't start in the Bronx: B-boy History. 8. Conclusion.

This is Pop
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

This is Pop

This publication is an inquiry that crosses stylistic categories of pop music and writing pop music.

Portishead's Dummy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Portishead's Dummy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-12-08
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

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Language Is a Place of Struggle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Language Is a Place of Struggle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-12-01
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  • Publisher: Beacon Press

"Language Is a Place of Struggle" is the first truly multiracial and polycultural quote book, collecting quotations from both historical and contemporary novelists and poets, activists and political leaders, and artists and musicians. Within these pages, readers will find wisdom, wit, and inspiration from Asian Americans, African Americans, Latinos, Arab Americans, American Indians, recent immigrants to the United States, and many others. With nearly fifteen hundred quotations, this exceptional book covers a broad spectrum: from insights on spirituality to words inciting social change and justice; from the impact of colonization, slavery, and racism to observations on gender, sexuality, and ...

Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists

Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists is more popular than racism! Hip hop is huge, and it's time someone wrote it all down. And got it all right. With over 25 aggregate years of interviews, and virtually every hip hop single, remix and album ever recorded at their disposal, the highly respected Ego Trip staff are the ones to do it. The Book of Rap Lists runs the gamut of hip hop information. This is an exhaustive, indispensable and completely irreverent bible of true hip hip knowledge.

This Side of Forever
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

This Side of Forever

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-11-30
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

Several strangers brought together by one mans dream. A prophetic dream that will test the spirit of each as they find themselves secluded high in the Sierras with time itself running out. As God supernaturally intervenes the group must hold on for the test of a lifetime that will elevate the faith of some while simply destroying the faith of others.

Hip-hop Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Hip-hop Revolution

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

As hip-hop artists constantly struggle to "keep it real," this fascinating study examines the debates over the core codes of hip-hop authenticity--as it reflects and reacts to problematic black images in popular culture--placing hip-hop in its proper cultural, political, and social contexts.

Classic Material
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 177

Classic Material

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: ECW Press

With over forty unique reviews covering sixty landmark hip-hop albums spanning twenty years, Classic Material proves that there is no lack of intelligent commentary and criticism on rap music.

Just Around Midnight
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Just Around Midnight

By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the music industry and in the minds of fans. Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s rock and roll was racially inclusive and attracted listeners and performers across the color line. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more seri...

The History of Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

The History of Music

Music is an art that, in one guise or another, permeates every human society. Though musical theory did not develop until the nineteenth century, rhythm has had the power to move people for millennia. Readers will travel the river of musical time, from early Indian and Chinese conceptions, when music was first used as a sonic vector for religion, through its development in the Middle Ages to great classical composers of the late eighteenth century to the music of today.