Marcyliena Morgan

The Real Hiphop

Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the LA Underground

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Produktbeschreibung

Project Blowed is a legendary hiphop workshop based in Los Angeles. It began in 1994 when a group of youth moved their already renowned open-mic nights from The Good Life, a Crenshaw district health food store, to the KAOS Network, an arts centre in Leime

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343622
• ISBN-10: 0822343622
• Artikelnr.: 25875236

Autorenporträt

Marcyliena Morgan, Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, is the founder and executive director of the Hiphop Archive and the author of Language, Discourse, and Power in African American Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: I Am Hiphop 1
1. The Hippest Corner in LA 21
2. Welcome to the Underground: Building Hiphop Culture and Language 47
3. Thursday Night at Project Blowed 85
4. (Ph)eminists of the New School: Real Women, Tough Politics, and Female
Science 131
5. Politics, Discourse, and Drama: "Respect Due" 161
6. It's Hiphop Nation Time: Enter the KAOS 185
Appendix: Transcription Conventions 195
Notes 197
Glossary 207
References 211
Index 223