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Autore: | Caplan David <1969-> |
Titolo: | Rhyme's challenge : hip hop, poetry, and contemporary rhyming culture / / David Caplan |
Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
Disciplina: | 808.1 |
Soggetto topico: | English language - Rhyme |
Hip-hop - United States | |
American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism | |
American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; RHYME'S CHALLENGE; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION Because It Rhymes; 1 REDUCED TO RHYME Contemporary Doggerel; 2 THE ART OF RHYMED INSULT; 3 MAKING LOVE IN MIRRORS Hip-Hop Seduction Verse; 4 THE INHERITORS OF HIP HOP Reclaiming Rhyme; CONCLUSION On the Present and Future of Rhyme; CREDITS; NOTES; INDEX |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Rhyme's challenge |
ISBN: | 0-19-936426-5 |
0-19-533712-3 | |
0-19-971410-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910453698703321 |
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