Customer Review: This is one of the best music books I have ever purchased it has reviews on almost every hip hop album ever made for all the Youngsters of the rap game that have no education in hip hop buy this book at once and find something out on Kool DJ Herc-Grandwizard Theodore-Grandmaster Caz the originators... more info
Customer Review: As a child of the 70's and coming of age in the 80's (born in 1970) I was pleased to be taken down memory lane by the Author as I was both reminded and informed of events that helped shaped my thinking as I grew up a member of the 'Hip Hop' generation. However, I do think the Author could have done... more info
Customer Review: I am a recent music therapy grad who will soon be starting an internship with adolescents. The facility where I'll be working uses a lot of rap and hip-hop music in their work, so I decided to pick up this book and check it out!
From the outset, you can tell that Dr. Elligan is not a writer by... more info
Customer Review: Hip Hop is founded on the valorization--rather than villification--of recontextualization, revision, and redaction. In a examplary work of musical and cultural studies scholarship, Rose traces the ways prior black musical/oral traditions, technological advances, and sexism undergird the discourse... more info
Customer Review: I spent over $30,000 A year studying music industry at some over sized school in Boston and honestly I probrably absorbed more from this one particular book than any of the required text assigned to me at that school. Though this book cannot replace hands on experience needed to truly become... more info
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