Hip-Hop Revolution

The Culture and Politics of Rap
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7006-1651-0
Verlag: University Press Of Kansas

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Reihe: CultureAmerica

In this groundbreaking book, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar celebrates hip-hop and confronts the cult of authenticity that defines its essential character. Deftly balancing an insider's love of the culture with a scholar's detached critique, he traces hip-hop's rise as a cultural juggernaut and persuasively challenges widely held notions that hip-hop is socially dangerous - to black youth in particular. ""Hip-Hop Revolution"" is a balanced cultural history that looks past negative stereotypes of hip-hop as a monolith of hedonistic, unthinking noise to reveal its evolving positive role within American society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G.

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar is associate professor of history and director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is author of Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity and edited the volume The Civil Rights Movement: Problems in American Civilization.