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Hip Hop Matters
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Samuel Craig Watkins
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Beacon Press

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Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the hip hop generation, Hip Hop Matters focuses on the fierce and far-reaching b
The Hip Hop Wars
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Tricia Rose
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-02 - Publisher: Civitas Books

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A pioneering expert in the study of hip-hop explains why the music matters--and why the battles surrounding it are so very fierce.
Hip-Hop (And Other Things)
Language: en
Pages: 543
Authors: Shea Serrano
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-26 - Publisher: Twelve

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HIP-HOP (AND OTHER THINGS) is about, as it were, rap, but also some other things. It's a smart, fun, funny, insightful book that spends the entirety of its time
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: M. K. Asante, Jr.
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-16 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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In It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, M. K. Asante, Jr. looks at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is
Why Bushwick Bill Matters
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Charles L. Hughes
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-15 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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In 1989 the Geto Boys released a blistering track, “Size Ain’t Shit,” that paid tribute to the group’s member Bushwick Bill. Born with dwarfism, Bill wa