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  • The 'Hood Comes First

    Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop

    by Murray Forman ...
    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 ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Old in the Game

    Aging in and with Hip-Hop

    by Murray Forman ...
    Series Book 8 - California Series in Hip Hop Studies
    The first study of hip-hop and aging, featuring insights from over twenty hip-hop pioneers and veterans.Hip-hop is now in its sixth decade. How are the culture’s oldest innovators aging in, and with, hip-hop? In In Old in the Game, Murray Forman examines how hip-hop artists, audiences, and entrepreneurs negotiate the cultural process of aging.Featuring commentary from hip-hop pioneers Grandmaster ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Hip-Hop Archives

    The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production

    by Mark V. Campbell, Murray Forman ...
    This book focuses on the culture and politics involved in building hip-hop archives. It addresses practical aspects, including methods of accumulation, curation, preservation and digitization and critically analyses institutional power, community engagement, urban economics, public access and the ideological implications associated with hip-hop culture’s enduring tensions with dominant social ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • We Still Here

    Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel

    Edited by Charity Marsh, Mark Campbell ...
    We Still Here maps the edges of hip-hop culture and makes sense of the rich and diverse ways people create and engage with hip-hop music within Canadian borders.Contributors to the collection explore the power of institutions, mainstream hegemonies, and the processes of historical formation in the evolution of hip-hop culture. Throughout, the volume foregrounds the generative issues of gender, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount

    Popular Music on Early Television

    by Murray Forman ...
    Series series Console-ing passions: television and cultural power
    Elvis Presley's television debut in January 1956 is often cited as the moment when popular music and television came together. Murray Forman challenges that contention, revealing popular music as crucial to television years before Presley's sensational small-screen performances. Drawing on trade and popular journalism, internal television and music industry documents, and records of audience ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Boogie Down Predictions

    Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism

    by Rasheeda Phillips, Steven Shaviro, Kodwo Eshun ...
    Essays that explore the connections between time, representation, and identity within hip-hop culture."This book, edited by Roy Christopher, is a moment. It is the deconstructed sample, the researched lyrical metaphors, the aha moment on the way to hip-hop enlightenment. Hip-hop permeates our world, and yet it is continually misunderstood. Hip-hop's intersections with Afrofuturism and science ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies

    Edited by Mary Fogarty, Imani Kai Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Engaging with a broad range of research and performance genres, The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies offers the most comprehensive research on Hip Hop dance to date. Filling a lacuna in both Hip Hop and dance studies, the Handbook places practitioners' voices at the forefront and in dialogue with theoretical insights, rooted in critical race theory, anticolonialism, intersectional feminism ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • Born to Use Mics

    Reading Nas's Illmatic

    Edited by Michael Eric Dyson, Sohail Daulatzai ...
    At the age of nineteen, Nasir "Nas" Jones began recording tracks for his debut album -- and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as an instant masterpiece and has proven one of the most influential albums in hip-hop history. With its close attention to beats and lyricism, and riveting first-person explorations of the isolation and desolation of urban poverty, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Know What I Mean?

    Reflections on Hip-Hop

    by Michael Eric Dyson ...
    Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music and the culture that inspires it. Dubbed "the Hip-Hop Intellectual" by critics and fans for his pioneering explorations of rap music in the academy and beyond, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Total Chaos

    The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop

    by Jeff Chang ...
    It's not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theater, dance, performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography, painting, and film, to become one of the most far-reaching and transformative arts movements of the past two decades. American Book Award-winning journalist Jeff Chang, author of the acclaimed Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, assembles some of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Steel Chair to the Head

    The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling

    by Roland Barthes, Henry Jenkins III, Sharon Mazer, Carlos Monsivais ...
    The antagonists—oiled, shaved, pierced, and tattooed; the glaring lights; the pounding music; the shouting crowd: professional wrestling is at once spectacle, sport, and business. Steel Chair to the Head provides a multifaceted look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling. The contributors combine critical rigor with a deep appreciation of wrestling as a unique cultural form, the latest in a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Banding Together

    How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music

    by Jennifer C. Lena ...
    Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka, and including several created outside ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD