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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music/Culture)

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music/Culture)

by Tricia Rose

A comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of rap music.

The Black Poets

by Dudley Randall

Covers black American poetry from the slave songs through the 1960's.

Blues People: Negro Music in White America

Blues People: Negro Music in White America

"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... <If> the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music." So... (more)

Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip-Hop's Moral Center

Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip-Hop's Moral Center

by William Upski Wimsatt

Should graffiti writers organize to tear up the cities, or should they really be bombing the ‘burbs? That’s the question posed by William Upski Wimsatt in his seminal foray into the world of hip-hop, rap, and street art, and the culture and politics that surround it. But to say that the book deals only with taggers and hip-hop is selling it short. Taking on a broad range of topics, including suburban sprawl,... (more)

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