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Rap music and the poetics of identity
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Rap music and the poetics of identity

Author: Adam Krims
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series: New perspectives in music history and criticism.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically and how it contributes to the formation of cultural identities for both artists and audiences. It also argues that current skeptical attitudes toward music analysis in popular music studies are misplaced and need to be reconsidered if cultural studies are to treat seriously the social force of rap music, popular musics, and music in  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Adam Krims
ISBN: 0521632684 9780521632683 0521634474 9780521634472
OCLC Number: 41606292
Description: xii, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: music theory, musical poetics, rap music --
Analyzing rap music --
A genre system for rap music --
The musical poetics of a 'revolutionary' identity --
Rap geography and soul food --
Two cases of localized (and globalized) musical poetics --
Bibliography --
Discography.
Series Title: New perspectives in music history and criticism.
Responsibility: Adam Krims.
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"This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically and how it contributes to the formation of cultural identities for both artists and audiences. It also argues that current skeptical attitudes toward music analysis in popular music studies are misplaced and need to be reconsidered if cultural studies are to treat seriously the social force of rap music, popular musics, and music in general. Drawing extensively on recent scholarship in popular music studies, cultural theory, communications, critical theory, and musicology, Krims redefines 'music theory' as meaning simply 'theory about music', in which musical poetics (the study of how musical sound is deployed) may play a crucial role when its claims are contextualized and demystified. Theorizing local and global geographies of rap, Krims discusses at length the music of Ice Cube, the Goodie MoB, KRS-One, Dutch group the Spookrijders, and Canadian Cree rapper Bannock"--Publisher description.

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