Introduction: music theory, musical poetics, rap music; 1. Analyzing rap music; 2. A genre system for rap music; 3. The musical poetics of a 'revolutionary' identity; 4. Rap geography and soul food; 5. Two cases of localized (and globalized) musical poetics; Bibliography; Discography.
This is the first book to explain how rap is put together musically.
"...students and scholars who accept the academic importance of the rap idiom (an idealization of rap is already taking place in the works of young composers -- Gregory Walker, for example) will appreciate this contribution to the literature on contemporary music." Choice
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