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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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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99-10
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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