To the break of dawn [[electronic resource] ] : a freestyle on the hip hop aesthetic / / William Jelani Cobb

• Autore: Cobb Jelani
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.421649
• Soggetto topico: Hip-hop
• Soggetto non controllato: Bronx; Eminem; South; artistic; evolution; from; hip-hop
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The roots -- The score -- Word of mouth -- Asphalt chronicles : hip hop and the storytelling tradition -- Seven MCs.
• Sommario/riassunto: 2007 Arts Club of Washington’s National Award for Arts Writing - Finalist SEE ALSO: Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. With roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip-hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970's and has spread to the farthest corners of the earth. To the Break of Dawn uniquely examines this freestyle verbal artistry on its own terms. A kid from Queens who spent his youth at the epicenter of this new art form, music critic William Jelani Cobb takes readers inside the beats, the lyrics, and the flow of hip-hop, separating mere corporate rappers from the creative MCs that forged the art in the crucible of the street jam. The four pillars of hip hop—break dancing, graffiti art, deejaying, and rapping—find their origins in traditions as diverse as the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira and Caribbean immigrants’ turnstile artistry. Tracing hip-hop’s relationship to ancestral forms of expression, Cobb explores the cultural and literary elements that are at its core. From KRS-One and Notorious B.I.G. to Tupac Shakur and Lauryn Hill, he profiles MCs who were pivotal to the rise of the genre, verbal artists whose lineage runs back to the black preacher and the bluesman. Unlike books that focus on hip-hop as a social movement or a commercial phenomenon, To the Break of Dawn tracks the music's aesthetic, stylistic, and thematic evolution from its inception to today's distinctly regional sub-divisions and styles. Written with an insider's ear, the book illuminates hip-hop's innovations in a freestyle form that speaks to both aficionados and newcomers to the art.
• Titolo autorizzato: To the break of dawn
• ISBN: 0-8147-9004-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782024303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II