Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity

Zusammenfassung This is the first book to explain how rap is put together musically. Whereas popular music scholarship tends to dismiss music analysis as of limited value! Krims argues that it can be crucial to cultural theory. It brings together perspectives from music theory! musicology! cultural studies! critical theory! and communications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Adam Krims
• Collaboration: Jeffrey Kallberg (Editeur), Anthony Newcomb (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 27.04.2000
• EAN: 9780521632683
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63268-3
• Pages: 232
• Thème: New Perspectives in Music Hist
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Musique > Autres