Book of Rhymes : The Poetics of Hip Hop

Name: Book of Rhymes : The Poetics of Hip Hop
Brand: Basic Books
SKU: 0465094406
Price: 1559 INR
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ISBN: 9780465094400

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27 Jun, 2017

By Adam Bradley (author)

If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is th...

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ISBN-10:

0465094406

ISBN-13:

9780465094400

Publisher

Basic Books

Dimensions

8.10 X 5.40 X 0.90 inches

Language

English

Description

If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners.

Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.

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Product Details

ISBN-10

:0465094406

ISBN-13

:9780465094400

Publisher

:Basic Books

Publication date

: 27 Jun, 2017

Edition

:Revised edition

Editorial Reviews

'Bradley delivers the intellectual dynamite with this astonishingly researched, passionately argued glove-across-the-face challenge to traditional hip hop scholarship. Superb on every level, a revelation and a joy to read."--Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao

About the Author

Adam Bradley is a professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder where he directs the Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture. The author or editor of six books, Bradley has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, among others. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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