Hip
Subtitle: the history
By: John Leland.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins; Ecco
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Popular culture -- United States; Subculture -- United States; Culture -- United States
Description: Explores where hip comes from and how it works. Chronicles the shared national identity that blacks and white, Jews and goyim, gays and straights invented in order to live with each other, tracing the evolution of a vulgar, electric American style from Walt Whitman to Jay Z.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning there was rhythm: slavery, minstrelsy and the blues; title: The O.G.'s: Emerson, Thoreau, Melville and Whitman; title: My black/white roots: Jazz, the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance; title: Would a hipster hit a lady? Pulp Fiction, Film Noir and Gangsta Rap; title: The golden age of Hip, Part 1: Bebop, cool jazz and the cold war; title: The golden age of hip, part 2: The beats; title: The tricksters: signifying monkeys and other hip engines of progress; title: Hip has three fingers: the miseducation of Bugs Bunny; title: The world is a ghetto: Blacks, Jews, and Blues; title: Criminally hip: Outlaws, gangsters, players, hustlers; title: Where the ladies at? Revel girls, riot grrrls and the revenge on the mother; title: Behind the music: the drug connection; title: "It's like punk rock, but a car": Hip sells out; title: Do geeks dream of HTML sheep? A digressive journey through digital hip; title: Everybody's hip: superficial reflections on the white caucasian.