The rap on gangsta rap
Subtitle: who run it? : gangsta rap and visions of Black violence
By: Bakari Kitwana.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Third World Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Rap (Music) -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Social life and customs; African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism
Other titles: Gangsta rap and visions of Black violence.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 68-74.
Table of contents: title: Who run it?; title: Experts and mass confusion; title: Rap in the Black musical tradition; title: Hip hop culture, popular culture, Black culture; title: Impact of commercializaton on rap's evolution; title: Emancipated "niggers and bitches" for sale; title: Hardcore raps and generation gaps.; title: (cont.) The politics of rap lyrics; title: Community need, commercial desire; title: Call & response and rap music; title: Gun violence and rap music; title: A victim's worldview: gangstas, players, pimps, hustlers,....; title: Fragments of Black political consciousness.