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The Poetics Of Hip Hop
Basic Civitas Books
March 2009
On Sale: February 23, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 0465003478
EAN: 9780465003471
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Non-Fiction
If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American
poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in
their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the
most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar
in response to its controversial lyrical content has
obscured hip hop’s revolution of poetic craft and
experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render
poetic meter audible, allowing an MC’s wordplay to move a
club-full of eager listeners. Examining rap history’s most memorable lyricists and their
inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues
that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard
of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America’s least
understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex
craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.
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