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11%OFFGeoff Harkness - Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class - 9780816692293 - V9780816692293
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Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class

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Description for Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVA; JFCA; JFSG; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304.

On September 4, 2012, Joseph Coleman, an eighteen-year-old aspiring gangsta rapper, was gunned down in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Police immediately began investigating the connections between Coleman’s murder and an online war of words and music he was having with another Chicago rapper in a rival gang. In Chicago Hustle and Flow, Geoff Harkness points out how common this type of incident can be when rap groups form as extensions of gangs. Gangs and rap music, he argues, can be a deadly combination.

Set in one of the largest underground music scenes in the nation, this book takes readers ... Read more

Street gangs serve as a fan base and provide protection to rappers who bring in income and help to recruit for the gang. In examining this symbiotic relationship, Chicago Hustle and Flow ultimately illustrates how class stratification creates and maintains inequalities, even at the level of a local rap-music scene.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816692293
SKU
V9780816692293
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Geoff Harkness
Geoff Harkness is visiting assistant professor of sociology at Grinnell College.

Reviews for Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class
"In shifting the emphasis away from textual analysis of rap songs and toward artists’ understandings of their own practices and identities, Chicago Hustle and Flow avoids the most common pitfalls of hip-hop studies texts. Many scholars have written about gangsta rap, but Geoff Harkness’s committed qualitative approach and vividly drawn setting are deep breaths of fresh air." —Michael Jeffries, author ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class


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