LEADER 04391nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910958344203321 005 20251116220318.0 010 $a0-8070-0991-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000478323 035 $a(OCoLC)182530610 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10175303 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000171294 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11155161 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000171294 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10110755 035 $a(PQKB)11621370 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3117977 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6103633 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3117977 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10175303 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL523481 035 $a(OCoLC)922967725 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6103633 035 $a(BIP)15207912 035 $a(BIP)49645219 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000478323 100 $a20041013d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHip hop matters $epolitics, pop culture, and the struggle for the soul of a movement /$fS. Craig Watkins 210 $aBoston $cBeacon Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (303 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a1-299-92230-9 311 08$a0-8070-0986-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-282) and index. 327 $aIntro -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE Hip Hop Matters -- INTRODUCTION Back in the Day -- PART ONE: Pop Culture and the Struggle for Hip Hop -- CHAPTER ONE Remixing American Pop -- CHAPTER TWO A Great Year in Hip Hop -- CHAPTER THREE Fear of a White Planet -- CHAPTER FOUR The Digital Underground -- PART TWO: Politics and the Struggle for Hip Hop -- CHAPTER FIVE Move the Crowd -- CHAPTER SIX Young Voices in the Hood -- CHAPTER SEVEN "Our Future...Right Here, Right Now!" -- CHAPTER EIGHT "We Love Hip Hop, But Does Hip Hop Love Us?" -- CHAPTER NINE Artificial Intelligence? -- EPILOGUE Bigger Than Hip Hop -- Acknowledgments -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. 330 $aFrom its humble beginnings in the Bronx to its transformation into a multibillion-dollar global industry, hip hop has stirred constant and contentious debate. Avoiding the simple caricatures that either celebrate or condemn this powerful movement, S. Craig Watkins produces one of the most thorough accounts of hip hop yet. Hip Hop Matters delves deeply into the phenomenal world that hip hop has created and comes up with a portrait that is as big, brave, and vibrant as the movement itself. Readers see the brilliance and blemishes of hip hop's entrepreneurial elite and also discover a thriving digital underground, hip-hop inspired literature, young political activists, and the movement's own intelligentsia. Watkins punctuates this meticulously researched book with revealing anecdotes and astute analysis of the corporate takeover of hip hop, the culture's march into America's colleges and universities, and the rampant misogyny threatening hip hop's progressive potential. He also offers revealing portraits of some of hip hop's most intriguing personalities-Sylvia Robinson, Grandmaster Flash, Chuck D, Jay-Z, Hype Williams, and Eminem-and influential brands-FUBU and Def Jam. Ultimately, we see how the struggle for hip hop reverberates in a world bigger than hip hop: global media, racial and demographic change, the reinvention of the pop music industry, urban politics, the moral and public health of young people, and their relentless desire to be heard and respected. It is the spectacular convergence of these and other issues that makes hip hop one of the more compelling stories of our time. Which people and what forces are vying to control a movement that has become a lucrative pop culture industry as well as an insurgent voice for the young and the disenfranchised? Watkins's incisive and timely book decisively answers the question and shows why now, more than ever, hip hop matters. 606 $aRap (Music)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHip-hop 615 0$aRap (Music)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHip-hop. 676 $a782.421649 700 $aWatkins$b S. Craig$g(Samuel Craig)$01157456 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910958344203321 996 $aHip hop matters$94476217 997 $aUNINA