The hip hop wars
Subtitle: what we talk about when we talk about hip hop
By: Tricia Rose.
Publisher: BasicCivitas
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780465008971
Subjects: Hip-hop -- Social aspects -- United States; Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States; Social change -- United States; Subculture -- United States; African Americans -- Social conditions; United States -- Social conditions
Description: From the Publisher: Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and 'hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining with a critical eye because, as scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip-hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States. In The Hip-Hop Wars, Rose explores the most crucial issues underlying the polarized claims on each side of the debate: Does hip-hop cause violence, or merely reflect a violent ghetto culture? Is hip-hop sexist, or are its detractors simply anti-sex? Does the portrayal of black culture in hip-hop undermine black advancement? A potent exploration of a divisive and important subject, The Hip-Hop Wars concludes with a call for the regalvanization of the progressive and creative heart of hip-hop. What Rose calls for is not a sanitized vision of the form, but one that more accurately reflects a much richer space of culture, politics, anger, and yes, sex, than the current ubiquitous images in sound and video currently provide.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hip hop's critics; title: Hip hop causes violence; title: Hip hop reflects black dysfunctional culture; title: Hip hop hurts black people; title: Hip hop is destroying America's values; title: Hip hop is demeaning to women; title: Hip hop's defenders; title: I'm just keeping it real; title: Hip hop is not responsible for sexism; title: There are bitches and hoes; title: We're not role models; title: Nobody talk about the positive in hip hop; title: Mutual denials; title: Progressive margins and undergrounds; title: My top ten : guiding principles for progressive creativity, consumption and community in hip hop and beyond.