The real hiphop
Subtitle: battling for knowledge, power, and respect in the LA underground
By: Marcyliena Morgan.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780822343622; 9780822343851
Subjects: Project Blowed; Hip-hop -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles; Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles
Description: "In "The Real Hiphop," Marcyliena Morgan has written a brilliant account of the origins of hiphop and the process through which it is created and evolves, from its most elemental and raw forms into the highly processed and polished versions that have become the lingua franca of popular American culture over the past few decades. Using her considerable skills as an linguistic anthropologist, Morgan--the founder of the world's only hiphop archive--raises the analysis of hiphop to an entirely new level of scholarship, explicating it as a linguistic, sociological, and political phenomenon. This book is full of astonishing insights and subtle analysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : I am Hiphop; title: The hippest corner in LA; title: Welcome to the underground : building Hiphop culture and language; title: Thursday night at Project Blowed; title: (Ph)eminists of the new school : real women, tough politics, and female science; title: Politics, discourse, and drama : "respect due"; title: It's Hiphop nation time : enter the KAOS.