- Rap (Music), Social aspects, History and criticism, Aspect social
Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop has been a generation-defining global movement. In a post-civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop gave voiceless youths a chance to address these seismic changes, and became a job-making engine and the Esperanto of youth rebellion.
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Earnest, epic, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc, Dave Cook, Mirron Willis
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 546
- Publisher
- Picador, Ebury, imusti
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Korean, English
- ISBN
- 9781515908531
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