Rhyme's challenge : hip hop, poetry, and contemporary rhyming culture / / David Caplan
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| Autore: |
Caplan David <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Rhyme's challenge : hip hop, poetry, and contemporary rhyming culture / / David Caplan
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; 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 | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-169) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| 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.: | 9910806166703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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