Dvs Mindz - The Twenty Year Saga of Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta

About the author

Geoff Harkness is associate professor of sociology at Rhode Island College. His previous books are Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class (2014) and Changing Qatar: Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization (2020). He first met the members of DVS Mindz in 1999 as a music journalist in Lawrence, Kansas, and went on to direct their early music videos and a documentary film about the group.

Summary

DVS Mindz might be the greatest rap group you’ve never heard of. Geoff Harkness takes readers on a unique two-decade journey alongside the members of DVS Mindz, chronicling their childhoods, their brush with success, and what became of them in the years that followed.

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Harkness, Harkness Geoff
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2023
• EAN: 9780231208734
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20873-4
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Rap and Hip Hop, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, Rap & Hip-Hop, Popular Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups