Somebody Scream!: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power - Softcover

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"A sweeping, painstakingly thorough . . . history of hip-hop." --Baz Dreisinger, The New York Times Book Review

"Extending the historical analysis found in other works on the genre, such as Jeff Chang's Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Reeves underscores the importance of rap as an art form that continues to evolve while remaining a viable means through which to channel future discourse of post-black power America." --Library Journal

"Pay attention: one of the most compelling writers of our generation has arrived. Somebody Scream! is a deeply imagined, finely balanced, and richly detailed narrative of our nation's complicated, contradictory, often explosive post-black power journey." --Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

"A muscular narrative of rap music . . . [Reeves's] attempt to suss out what exactly rap means in the modern black community is incisive and hopeful without succumbing to the hyperbolic claims common to music journalists." --Kirkus Reviews

Reseña del editor

Traces the history of rap music as a key component of the black arts movement in the wake of the civil rights and black power movements, examining the music and its politics, profiling ten key artists and their influence on the evolution of rap, and the music's birth as an expression of urban life and culture. Reprint.