Imani Perry

Prophets of the Hood

Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop

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Produktbeschreibung

""Prophets of the Hood" is the most comprehensive and intellectually original study to date of hip hop as a complex and innovative literary narrative form. Written with a refreshing blend of savvy critical rigor and brave and imaginative narrative verve, Imani Perry's study is an impressive analysis of late-twentieth-century American popular culture."--Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 160mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334354
• ISBN-10: 0822334356
• Artikelnr.: 13629172

Autorenporträt

Imani Perry is a Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
> Introduction 1
1. Hip Hop's Mama: Originalism and Identity in the Music 9
2. My Mic Sound Nice: Art, Community, and Consciousness 38
3. Stinging Like Tabasco: Structure and Format in Hip Hop Compositions 58
4. The Glorious Outlaw: Hip Hop Narratives, American Law, and the Court of
Public Opinion 102
5. B-Boys, Players, and Preachers: Reading Masculinity 117
6. The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto: Negotiating Spaces for Women 155
7. Bling Bling…and Going Pop: Consumerism and Co-optation in Hip Hop 191
Notes 205
Index 223