Signifying Rappers
By: David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello
Contributors: Costello, Mark
Edition: 1st Back Bay pbk. ed.
Publisher: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780316225830
Subjects: Rap (Music); History and criticism
Description: Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop." The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom. Signifying Rappers issued a fan's challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: Could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised?
Notes: Originally published: New York : Ecco Press, c1990.

New preface, c2013.

Includes bibliographical references.