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Where You´re at: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip Hop Planet
Patrick Neate
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Description for Where You´re at: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip Hop Planet
Paperback. A story of how hip hop conquered the globe and nobody noticed. This work explores the way how, through hip hop, the potent symbolism of black America has been acquired, used and subsumed by cultures on every continent to create a uniquely different form of globalism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: AVGR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182. Clean copy.
Pinballing around the major cities of the world, from where it all began in the projects of Brooklyn and the Bronx to the excessive madness of Tokyo, from the random violence of Johannesburg, to the shanty towns of Rio, Whitbread Award-winning writer Patrick Neate explores the way how, through hip hop, the potent symbolism of black America has been acquired, used and subsumed by cultures on every continent to create a uniquely different form of globalism. A stunning musical journey and cultural odyssey, "Where You're At" is the story of how hip hop conquered the globe and nobody noticed.
Pinballing around the major cities of the world, from where it all began in the projects of Brooklyn and the Bronx to the excessive madness of Tokyo, from the random violence of Johannesburg, to the shanty towns of Rio, Whitbread Award-winning writer Patrick Neate explores the way how, through hip hop, the potent symbolism of black America has been acquired, used and subsumed by cultures on every continent to create a uniquely different form of globalism. A stunning musical journey and cultural odyssey, "Where You're At" is the story of how hip hop conquered the globe and nobody noticed.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC New York
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747563891
SKU
KEX0212359
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99-2
About Patrick Neate
Patrick Neate has written two novels, MUSUNGU JIM AND THE GREAT CHIEF TULOKO and TWELVE BAR BLUES, which won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award 2001. He is also a prolific and highly respected music journalist.
Reviews for Where You´re at: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip Hop Planet
'A dazzling study of hip-hop illuminating and passionate throughout' Observer 'Neate's boundless enthusiasm and positivity proves oddly infectious this is thoughtful stuff: think Eminem rather than Vanilla Ice' Q 'Patrick Neate takes us on a very personal tour of hip hop this is the story of a genuine 'culture' told by a genuine enthusiast. A ... Read more