Being dope : hip hop and theory through mixtape memoir /
'Being Dope' is a book that will challenge what you think you know about rap and rappers. Written in lyrics, prose, and poetry, this book presents cultural criticism and analyzes form through the lenses of the social, historical, academic, and personal. It aims to disrupt the colonization...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Theorizing African American music.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 'Being Dope' is a book that will challenge what you think you know about rap and rappers. Written in lyrics, prose, and poetry, this book presents cultural criticism and analyzes form through the lenses of the social, historical, academic, and personal. It aims to disrupt the colonization of hip hop by academia and situate rappers and other hip hop artists as the makers of knowledge that academics and general audiences should study rather than reduce to tired tropes and stereotypes. Being Dope is not about hip hop; it is a book that uses hip hop to help make sense of the world that created it and continues to do so after more than five decades. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197772690 0197772692 9780197772676 0197772676 |