Where You're At : Notes from the Frontline of a Hip Hop Planet

Beschreibung

Neuware - A stunning musical journey and cultural odyssey, Where You're At is the story of how hip hop conquered the globe and nobody noticed.'A dazzling study of hip-hop . illuminating and passionate throughout' Observer'Neate tells it like it is . This is a heartening appreciation of a wondrous thing: poetry for the masses. Neate loves it and so should you' The TimesThis the definitive history of how hip-hop rose from a grassroots movement in tiny clubs and on literal streets to selling out arenas around the world and redefining the nature of popular music.Pinballing around the major cities of the world, from where it all began in the projects of Brooklyn and the Bronx to the excessive madness of Tokyo, from the random violence of Johannesburg, to the shanty towns of Rio, Whitbread Award-winning writer Patrick Neate explores the way how, through hip hop, the potent symbolism of black America has been acquired, used and subsumed by cultures on every continent to create a uniquely different form of globalism.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Where You're At : Notes from the Frontline of a Hip Hop Planet

Verlag

Bloomsbury Trade

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0747563896

ISBN-13

9780747563891

Einband

Taschenbuch

Zustand

Neu

Abmessungen

198B x 158 H x 30 T Millimeter Breite: 198 mm, Höhe: 158 mm, Tiefe: 30 mm

Gewicht

186 Gramm

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