TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jeffries,Michael P.
TI  - Thug life: race, gender, and the meaning of hip-hop 
SN  - 9780226395869
AV  - ML3918.R37 J44 2011eb
U1  - 306.4/842490973 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Rap (Music)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Hip-hop
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - fast
KW  - Rap music
KW  - sears
KW  - Hip-hop culture
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
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