The Ruffhouse Records founder tells how he overcame poverty, abuse, and addiction to start a label that launched some of music's biggest stars: “Gripping.”ーPhiladelphia Magazine
As a struggling mus……続きを見る
The uncut rise and fall of the group behind the best-selling 12-inch single...Rumors! In the summer of 1986, "Rumors/Vicious Rumors" by Timex Social Club, dominated radio airwaves. Their song also t……続きを見る
Essays examining the impact of hip hop music on pop culture and youth identity in post-Soviet Central and Eastern Europe.
Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in Central and Eas……続きを見る
“[A] magnificent study . . . adds to the burgeoning scholarship on global hip hop and furthers our knowledge of the African diaspora in Eastern Europe.” ーAnthropology of East Europe Reviews
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The diva – a central figure in the landscape of contemporary popular culture: gossip-generating, scandal-courting, paparazzi-stalked. And yet the diva is at the epicentre of creative endeavours that……続きを見る
This set covers all aspects of international hip hop as expressed through music, art, fashion, dance, and political activity.
Hip hop music has gone from being a marginalized genre in the late 1980s……続きを見る
Andre "Mac Dre" Hicks always found a way to tell his story. He was one of the first rappers to record songs through a prison phone in the early '90s (much to the dismay of his jailors). His untimely……続きを見る
Behind the Hits is an intimate look into the creative mind and behind the music of Grammy Award winning producer Christopher James Gholson professionally known as Drumma Boy. This journey takes you ……続きを見る
Hip hop icons and rap innovators, the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur continue to influence, define, and change the genre years after their deaths. Despite the controversies surrounding the murder……続きを見る
著者:Jonathan Mael
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2023年09月12日
A thrilling narrative history of how one rap battle in New York transformed American culture forever.
July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the future of America's newest art form: hip hop. In New Y……続きを見る
This is an album lookbook that explores the hidden meanings behind the vision.
An album lookbook in comparison to a traditional lookbook outlines the ideas, photos, poems, hidden messages, merch, an……続きを見る
Hey there, Summer Adventurers,
Welcome to the August edition of our Magazine - where we're all about bringing you the sizzle and sparkle of the season.
Get ready for August Awakenings: Uniting Passi……続きを見る
著者:Questlove
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2024年06月11日
This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop.
When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn’t expected to become the……続きを見る
著者:Ghostface Killah
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2024年05月14日
The story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding members
Dennis Colesーaka Ghostface Killahーis a co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip hop group……続きを見る
Celebrating Hip Hop Music with Poetry includes unique poems representing topics associated with the lovable culture, making it the perfect collectible for the hip-hop lover. Follow and find more uni……続きを見る
Although Hip Hop is known to come from the streets of South Bronx, New York, its origins go far deeper than that. Unconsciously, the innovative souls of the 1970s Hip Hop movement demonstrated the c……続きを見る
This book focuses on the culture and politics involved in building hip-hop archives. It addresses practical aspects, including methods of accumulation, curation, preservation, and digitization and c……続きを見る
著者:Mawunyo Gbogbo
出版社: Penguin Random House Australia
発売日: 2022年05月31日
‘Hip hop and hymns: the two would always go hand in hand for me. My life would always straddle both. The sacred and the profane, all living on the same block, all divine in the end.’
Mawunyo Gbogbo ……続きを見る
What does the founding of the Sugarhill Gang teach us about business development? What can we learn about management and leadership from Jay-Z’s decades-long dominance? What does Ice Cube’s refusal ……続きを見る
著者:Todd Craig
出版社: Utah State University Press
発売日: 2023年09月15日
“K for the Way” explores writing, rhetoric, and literacy from the perspective of the Hip Hop DJ. Todd Craig, a DJ himself, establishes and investigates the function of DJ rhetoric and literacy, illu……続きを見る
Graffiti art. DJ battles. This is the story of hip hop's cultural revolution.
Hip-hop exploded from simmering inner-city streets into chart-topping beats and rhymes in the pivotal 1980s. Fusing raw ……続きを見る
Think you know everything about hip hop? Check your knowledge against this tell-all book.
From the boombox battles of 1970s NYC streets to a multi-billion dollar business, this book chronicles the p……続きを見る
Trap beats, pink cars and hip hop's materialistic reinvention down South.
Southern struggle birthed a sound that conquered hip hop. "The History of Trap" charts trap music's underground rise and exp……続きを見る
"Rhythms of Resistance: A Journey through 90s Hip-Hop"
*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ***
*** Guest speaker of BBC2 Radio "Rapper's Delight 40th……続きを見る
From Bronx block parties to Obama's White House - hip hop steps into the political arena.
The 2010s cemented hip hop as the soundtrack of culture and change. "The History of Hip Hop: Volume 5" explo……続きを見る
Taboo-breaking jams. Explicit album covers. How hip hop forced America to drop its conservative lens.
Discover hip hop's explosive crossover into the mainstream during the 2000s digital revolution i……続きを見る
Lay Lay -- the latest teen music sensation and Nickelodeon’s newest star -- stars in this brand-new illustrated chapter book series! Ever since her freestyle rapping video went viral, Lay Lay has be……続きを見る
Winner of Best Theatre for Young Audiences Music/Sound at the Offies Awards 2023
Sometimes they eat cheese
Sometimes they eat bread
They even eat the tiny crumbs that fall under the bed
They eat jel……続きを見る
A must-read for old-school hip-hop heads and burgeoning fans alike
Time
'Hip Hip is not History, it's Our story. Brilliant book'
Craig Charles
'Hip-Hop Is History melds a detailed chronological rete……続きを見る