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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
The Hip Hop Wars What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hopand Why It Matters
Author: Tricia Rose
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 h...  more ». 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.
ISBN-13: 9780465008971
ISBN-10: 0465008976
Publication Date: 12/1/2008
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
Book Type: Paperback
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