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What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--And Why It Matters
Basic Civitas Books
December 2008
On Sale: December 1, 2008
304 pages
ISBN: 0465008976
EAN: 9780465008971
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Non-Fiction
Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most
commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly
saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps,
and 'hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth
attending to and examining with a critical eye because, as
scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip-hop has
become a primary means by which we talk about race in the
United States. In The Hip-Hop Wars, Rose explores the most crucial issues
underlying the polarized claims on each side of the debate:
Does hip-hop cause violence, or merely reflect a violent
ghetto culture? Is hip-hop sexist, or are its detractors
simply anti-sex? Does the portrayal of black culture in
hip-hop undermine black advancement? A potent exploration of a divisive and important subject,
The Hip-Hop Wars concludes with a call for the
regalvanization of the progressive and creative heart of
hip-hop. What Rose calls for is not a sanitized vision of
the form, but one that more accurately reflects a much
richer space of culture, politics, anger, and yes, sex, than
the current ubiquitous images in sound and video currently
provide.
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