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The 'Hood Comes First. Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip Hop.
Murray Forman
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Paperback. 'The 'Hood Comes First' looks at the specific emphasis on real neighbourhoods and streets in rap music and hip hop culture as a urgent response to the cultural and geographical ghettoization of black urban communities. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; AVGR; GTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 685.
The 'Hood Comes First looks at the increasingly specific emphasis on real neighborhoods and streets in rap music and hip hop culture as an urgent response to the cultural and geographical ghettoization of black urban communities. Examining rap music, along with ancillary hip hop media including radio, music videos, rap press and the cinematic 'hood genre, Murray Forman analyzes hip hop culture's varying articulations of the terms "ghetto," "inner-city," and "the 'hood," and how these spaces, both real and imaginary, are used to define individual and collective identity.
Negotiating academic, corporate, and "street" discourses, Forman assesses the dynamics between ... Read more
The 'Hood Comes First looks at the increasingly specific emphasis on real neighborhoods and streets in rap music and hip hop culture as an urgent response to the cultural and geographical ghettoization of black urban communities. Examining rap music, along with ancillary hip hop media including radio, music videos, rap press and the cinematic 'hood genre, Murray Forman analyzes hip hop culture's varying articulations of the terms "ghetto," "inner-city," and "the 'hood," and how these spaces, both real and imaginary, are used to define individual and collective identity.
Negotiating academic, corporate, and "street" discourses, Forman assesses the dynamics between ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819563972
SKU
V9780819563972
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