02713nam 2200565 450 991079150120332120230803221028.00-19-936426-50-19-533712-30-19-971410-X(CKB)2550000001203343(EBL)1630553(MiAaPQ)EBC1630553(Au-PeEL)EBL1630553(CaPaEBR)ebr10835205(CaONFJC)MIL572809(OCoLC)869735984(EXLCZ)99255000000120334320140212h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRhyme's challenge hip hop, poetry, and contemporary rhyming culture /David CaplanOxford ;New York :Oxford University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (194 p.)Print version: Caplan, David, 1969- Rhyme's challenge. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014] 9780195337129 (DLC) 2013030719 (OCoLC)861754946 1-306-41558-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-169) and index.Introduction: because it rhymes -- Reduced to rhyme: contemporary doggerel -- The art of rhymed insult -- Making love in mirrors: hip-hop seduction verse -- The inheritors of hip hop: reclaiming rhyme -- Conclusion: on the present and future of rhyme.Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Sha ...English languageRhymeHip-hopUnited StatesAmerican poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican poetry21st centuryHistory and criticismEnglish languageRhyme.Hip-hopAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.American poetryHistory and criticism.808.1Caplan David1969-1531410MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791501203321Rhyme's challenge3777073UNINA