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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
Tricia Rose
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Description for The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
Paperback. A pioneering expert in the study of hip-hop explains why the music matters--and why the battles surrounding it are so very fierce. Num Pages: 320 pages, P. BIC Classification: AVGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 410.
Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and 'hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining with a critical eye because, as scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip-hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States . In The Hip-Hop Wars , Rose explores the most crucial issues underlying the polarized claims on each side of the debate: Does hip-hop cause violence, or merely reflect a violent ghetto culture? Is hip-hop sexist, or are its detractors simply anti-sex? Does the portrayal of black culture in hip-hop undermine black advancement? A potent exploration of a divisive and important subject, The Hip-Hop Wars concludes with a call for the regalvanization of the progressive and creative heart of hip-hop. What Rose calls for is not a sanitized vision of the form, but one that more accurately reflects a much richer space of culture, politics, anger, and yes, sex, than the current ubiquitous images in sound and video currently provide.
Product Details
Publisher
Basic Civitas Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465008971
SKU
V9780465008971
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About Tricia Rose
Tricia Rose is a professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. She specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century African-American culture and politics, social thought, popular culture, and gender issues. The author of the seminal Black Noise, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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