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Icons of hip hop : an encyclopedia of the movement, music, and culture
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Icons of hip hop : an encyclopedia of the movement, music, and culture

Author: Mickey Hess
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
Series: Greenwood icons.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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From Run DMC to Eminem, this encyclopedia uncoves the histories of important artists both inside and outside the hip-hop mainstream, all while examining the varied and ever-changing forms of the music.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Icons of hip hop.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007
(OCoLC)636520442
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mickey Hess
ISBN: 9780313339028 0313339023 9780313339035 0313339031 9780313339042 031333904X
OCLC Number: 85766109
Description: 2 v. (xxx, 640 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Contents: Volume one. Kool Herc / Wayne Marshall ; Grandmaster Flash / H.C. Williams ; Roxanne Shanté / Thembisa S. Mshaka ; Run-DMC / Jeb Aram Middlebrook ; Beastie Boys / Mickey Hess ; MC Lyte / Jennifer R. Young ; Eric B. & Rakim / Shawn Bernardo ; Public Enemy / George Ciccariello-Maher ; Salt-n-Pepa / Athena Elafros ; Queen Latifah / Faizi Hirji ; The Geto Boys / Jason D. Haugen ; The Native Tongues / Aine McGlynn --
Volume two. Ice Cube / David J. Leonard ; Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg / David Diallo ; Nas / Susan Weinstein ; Wu-tang Clan / Jessica Elliott and Mickey Hess ; Tupac Shakur / Carlos D. Morrison and Celnisha L. Dangerfield ; Notorious B.I.G. / James Peterson ; Lil' Kim / Aine McGlynn ; Outkast / T. Hasan Johnson ; Eminem / Katherine V. Tsiopos-Wills ; Missy Elliot / Joi Carr ; Jay-Z / T. Hasan Johnson ; Kanye West / Todd Dills.
Series Title: Greenwood icons.
Responsibility: edited by Mickey Hess.
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The extraordinary impact of hip-hop music is undeniable. At the forefront of this global phenomenon stand artists who broke new ground, both musically and politically. This work provides substantial  Read more...

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"The two-volume set consists primarily of twenty-four biographies ranging from the early pioneers of the movement through recent innovators. Information in the biographies provides a forty-year

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