Blowin' up
Subtitle: rap dreams in South Central
By: Jooyoung Lee
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780226348759; 9780226348896
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Rap (Music); Rap musicians; History and criticism; Music trade; African American teenage boys
Other titles: Blowing up :
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface. Down Crenshaw Boulevard; title: Introduction. Rap dreams and existential urgency; title: Becoming rappers. Growing up in gangland ; Masters of ceremony ; Freestyle ; The battle; title: Trying to blow up. Cautionary tales ; Almost famous ; Ditching the day job ; Gang violence and dreams derailed; title: Conclusion. Nurturing the creative lives of young black men; title: Shout outs; title: Methods appendix. Videos in ethnography.