Rhymes Challenge Hip Hop Poetry And Contemporary Rhyming Culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780195337129
Description: This book makes a spirited argument for hip-hop as an important form of contemporary American poetry. It discusses hip-hop artists such as Eminem, Jay-Z, and Kanye West alongside canonical poets like Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Auden. This book is penned in an accessible style that will appeal to general readers and students interested in hip hop and/or contemporary poetry. It offers an overview of three prominent rhymes favored by hip hop artists: doggerel, insult, and seduction.