Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music/Culture)
A critical study that treats rap not only as a musical form but as an expression bound up with urban culture and racial politics. Using lyrics, videos, and interviews, it examines how hip-hop became a site of social critique.
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A study of rap’s sound and culture through the politics of race and the city.
Widely read as a key study of contemporary Black culture, the book analyzes rap rhythm and language in the context of urban reality, media representation, and political tension. A Japanese translation, Black Noise, is also available.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Wesleyan Univ Pr
- Published
- 1994-04-01
- Pages
- 237 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.65 x 1.93 x 23.06 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780819562753
- ISBN-10
- 9780819562753
- Price
- 1805 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Arts & Photography/Music/Musical Genres/Ethnic & International/Ethnomusicology
From its beginnings in hip hop culture, the dense rhythms and aggressive lyrics of rap music have made it a provocative fixture on the American cultural landscape. In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Tricia Rose, described by the New York Times as a "hip hop theorist," takes a comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of this highly rhythmic, rhymed storytelling and grapples with the most salient issues and debates that surround it. Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History at New York University, Tricia Rose sorts through rap's multiple voices by exploring its underlying urban cultural politics, particularly the influential New York City rap scene, and discusses rap as a unique musical form in which traditional African-based oral traditions fuse with cutting-edge music technologies. Next she takes up rap's racial politics, its sharp criticisms of the police and the government, and the responses of those institutions. Finally, she explores the complex sexual politics of rap, including questions of misogyny, sexual domination, and female rappers' critiques of men. But these debates do not overshadow rappers' own words and thoughts. Rose also closely examines the lyrics and videos for songs by artists such as Public Enemy, KRS-One, Salt N' Pepa, MC Lyte, and L. L. Cool J. and draws on candid interviews with Queen Latifah, music producer Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, dancer Crazy Legs, and others to paint the full range of rap's political and aesthetic spectrum. In the end, Rose observes, rap music remains a vibrant force with its own aesthetic, "a noisy and powerful element of contemporary American popular culture which continues to draw a great deal of attention to itself."
TRICIA ROSE is a professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and author of numerous articles on black culture, rap music, and contemporary popular culture.
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Five Stars
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Great service
Arrived in really good time to read for an essay. Great service. A little bit of wear and tear on the book. But nevertheless, a well priced product with quick delivery.
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Best book about hip hop!
Tricia Rose analyses and describes in her "book black noise" history of hip hop and the functionalities in hip hop. Her perspective is unique and well-grounded. Rose describes loads of different aspects of hip hop such as gender roles, musical coherences and illuminates them from different perspectives including a detailed view on the development of hip hop. I can definately recommend this book!
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I love Hip Hop
As an adult man in my 30's, this book reminds me why I loved hip hop and why I still do. Historically, it reconnects me of my past experience with the whole movement; and intellectually, it summarizes the power of hip hop...
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