Sounding race in rap songs
By: Loren Kajikawa
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780520283985; 9780520283992
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Rap (Music); Popular music; Music and race; Production and direction; Sound recordings; Racism in popular culture; Race awareness
Description: "Each chapter explores the process behind the production of hit songs by musicians including Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Sugarhill Gang, Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy, N.W.A., Dr. Dre, and Eminem. This series of case studies highlights stylistic differences in sound, lyrics, and imagery, with musical examples and illustrations that help answer the core question: can we hear race in rap songs?"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Preliminary page.

Includes bibliographical references 183-191, discography (179-180), filmography 181), and index.
Table of contents: title: Stylistic change and racial formation in rap's first decade. "Rapper's delight" : from genre-less to new genre ; "Rebel without a pause" : Public Enemy revolutionizes the break; title: Rearticulating race in the neoliberal nineties. "Let me ride" : gangsta rap's drive into the popular mainstream ; "My name is" : signifying whiteness, rearticulating race; title: Conclusion. Sounding race in the twenty-first century.