Thug life : race, gender, and the meaning of hip-hop /
Jeffries, Michael P.,
Thug life : race, gender, and the meaning of hip-hop / Race, gender, and the meaning of hip-hop Michael P. Jeffries. - 1 online resource (x, 263 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246), discography (p. 247-248) , and index.
State of the hip-hop union -- The meaning of hip-hop -- From a cool complex to complex cool -- Thug life and social death -- The bridge : summary of chapters two and three -- Hip-hop authenticity in black and white -- Parental advisory : explicit lyrics -- The last verse -- Obama as hip-hop icon.
"Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States, a massively successful corporate enterprise predominantly controlled and consumed by whites while the most prominent performers are black. How does this shift in racial dynamics affect our understanding of contemporary hip-hop, especially when the music perpetuates stereotypes of black men? Do black listeners interpret hip-hop differently from white fans? These questions have dogged hip-hop for decades, but unlike most pundits, Michael P. Jeffries finds answers by interviewing everyday people. Instead of turning to performers or media critics, Thug Life focuses on the music's fans - young men, both black and white - and the resulting account avoids romanticism, offering an unbiased examination of how hip-hop works in people's daily lives. As Jeffries weaves the fans' voices together with his own sophisticated analysis, we are able to understand hip-hop as a tool listeners use to make sense of themselves and society as well as a rich, self-contained world containing politics and pleasure, virtue and vice."--Publisher.
English.
9780226395869 (electronic bk.) 0226395863 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) 0226395847 9780226395845 9786613058287 6613058289 1283058286 9781283058285
9780226395845
3249DE58-328B-41BE-AC18-48ED2027CCE6 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Rap (Music)--Social aspects--United States.
Hip-hop--Social aspects--United States.
Hip-hop--Aspect social--États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Rap (Music)--Social aspects.
Rap music--Social aspects.--United States
Hip-hop culture--Social aspects.--United States
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
ML3918.R37 / J44 2011eb
306.4/842490973
Thug life : race, gender, and the meaning of hip-hop / Race, gender, and the meaning of hip-hop Michael P. Jeffries. - 1 online resource (x, 263 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246), discography (p. 247-248) , and index.
State of the hip-hop union -- The meaning of hip-hop -- From a cool complex to complex cool -- Thug life and social death -- The bridge : summary of chapters two and three -- Hip-hop authenticity in black and white -- Parental advisory : explicit lyrics -- The last verse -- Obama as hip-hop icon.
"Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States, a massively successful corporate enterprise predominantly controlled and consumed by whites while the most prominent performers are black. How does this shift in racial dynamics affect our understanding of contemporary hip-hop, especially when the music perpetuates stereotypes of black men? Do black listeners interpret hip-hop differently from white fans? These questions have dogged hip-hop for decades, but unlike most pundits, Michael P. Jeffries finds answers by interviewing everyday people. Instead of turning to performers or media critics, Thug Life focuses on the music's fans - young men, both black and white - and the resulting account avoids romanticism, offering an unbiased examination of how hip-hop works in people's daily lives. As Jeffries weaves the fans' voices together with his own sophisticated analysis, we are able to understand hip-hop as a tool listeners use to make sense of themselves and society as well as a rich, self-contained world containing politics and pleasure, virtue and vice."--Publisher.
English.
9780226395869 (electronic bk.) 0226395863 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) 0226395847 9780226395845 9786613058287 6613058289 1283058286 9781283058285
9780226395845
3249DE58-328B-41BE-AC18-48ED2027CCE6 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Rap (Music)--Social aspects--United States.
Hip-hop--Social aspects--United States.
Hip-hop--Aspect social--États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Rap (Music)--Social aspects.
Rap music--Social aspects.--United States
Hip-hop culture--Social aspects.--United States
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
ML3918.R37 / J44 2011eb
306.4/842490973