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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bradley, Adam. Book of rhymes. New York, NY : Basic Civitas Books, c2009 (OCoLC)639684761 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Adam Bradley |
| ISBN: | 9780465003471 0465003478 |
| OCLC Number: | 246894813 |
| Description: | xxiii, 248 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue -- Rap poetry 101 -- Rhythm -- Rhyme -- Wordplay -- Style -- Storytelling -- Signifying -- Epilogue. |
| Responsibility: | Adam Bradley. |
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"Boston Globe" "Dallas Morning News " Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cornel West
"[Bradley] lays out a nuanced, academically rigorous argument that the best hip-hop deserves attention as genuine artistry...He traces the word rhythm from the Greek rheo, or flow. Biggie had flow; Jay-Z has flow. For an English professor, Adam Bradley got some flow of his own."
"Excellent...Where so many hip-hop studies lean heavily on politics and sociology, Book of Rhymes is a welcome and thorough exploration of rap aesthetics that isn't afraid to be learned."
"As comfortable in the company of Jay-Z as he is with John Donne, Adam Bradley is a visionary critic, skillful and wise. His "Book of Rhymes" is a tour de force, brilliantly renovating hip hop criticism as he rescues the forgotten vanguard of American poetry."
"Adam Bradley's "Book of Rhymes" is a marvelous exploration into the poetic genius of rap and the cultural gravity of Hip Hop. His analysis is subtle, sophisticated, and so
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