Rhyme's challenge : hip hop, poetry, and contemporary rhyming culture / / David Caplan

• Autore: Caplan David <1969->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II