Hip Hop as Performance and Ritual
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: July 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781412053945
Subjects: 1-4120-5394-3,1412053943,05-0289,050289,trafford publishing,William E. Smith Ph.d.,William smith,hip hop as performance and ritual,hip hop,music,pop culture,ethnomusicology,performance studies,jazz,african-american studies,; Music / General; Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop; Music
First sentence: Hip hop has definitive links with African performance elements and musical techniques that are traceable through the well-documented characteristics of Africanisms outlined by Henry Louis Gates (1988), Portia Maultsby and Joseph Holloway (1990), Eileen Southern (1971), and others.