The Hip Hop Wars
What We Talk About when We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
New York : BasicCivitas, ©2008.
Format: Book
Description: xii, 308 pages ; 24 cm
From the Publisher: Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and 'hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining with a critical eye because, as scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip-hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States. In The Hip-Hop Wars, Rose explores the most crucial issues underlying the polarized claims on each side of the debate: Does hip-hop cause violence, or merely reflect a violent ghetto culture? Is hip-hop sexist, or are its detractors simply anti-sex? Does the portrayal of black culture in hip-hop undermine black advancement? A potent exploration of a divisive and important subject, The Hip-Hop Wars concludes with a call for the regalvanization of the progressive and creative heart of hip-hop. What Rose calls for is not a sanitized vision of the form, but one that more accurately reflects a much richer space of culture, politics, anger, and yes, sex, than the current ubiquitous images in sound and video currently provide.
Contents:
Hip hop's critics -- Hip hop causes violence -- Hip hop reflects black dysfunctional ghetto culture -- Hip hop hurts black people -- Hip hop is destroying America's values -- Hip hop is demeans women -- Hip hop's defenders -- Just keeping it real -- Hip hop is not responsible for sexism -- "There are bitches and hoes" -- We're not role models -- Nobody talk about the positive in hip hop -- Mutual denials in the hip hop wars -- Progressive voices, energies, and visions -- Six guiding principles for progressive creativity, consumption, and community in hip hop and beyond.
Subjects:
Hip-hop -- United States.
Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Social change -- United States.
Subculture -- United States.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
United States -- Social conditions.
Hip-hop -- United States.
Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Social change -- United States.
Subculture -- United States.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
United States -- Social conditions.
ISBN:
9780465008971
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-291) and index.