Rap Music and Street Consciousness (Music in American Life)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780252027611
Subjects: Popular culture; Rap & Hip-Hop; Rap (Music); Social Aspects Of Music; Music/Songbooks; Music; USA; Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop; History & Criticism - General; Music / Rap; General; History and criticism; Social aspects
First sentence: Most critics and scholars concur that rap music is a confluence of African American and Caribbean cultural expressions, such as sermons, blues, game songs, and toasts and toasting-all of which are recited in a chanted rhyme or poetic fashion.