Where you're at
Subtitle: notes from the front line of a hip hop planet
By: Patrick Neate.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Hip-hop; Hip-hop -- Influence; Music -- Social aspects; African American arts -- Influence
Description: "Pinballing around major cities of the world, this is a breakneck journey from the New York projects where it all began to the consumerist arcana of modern Tokyo, from the schizophrenic menace of Johannesburg to the favela drug factions of Rio, as Patrick Neate investigates the way hip hop - the most potent expression of black America - has been appropriated and subsumed by both international capital and local cultures to create a unique and fascinating form of globalism." "From humble origins, the music is now used across the world to sell everything from washing powder to fried chicken and yet, in many places, it retains true cultural and political significance."--Jacket.