Title: Rap Music and Street Consciousness (Music in American Life)
Description: "Traces the genre's history from its roots in West African bardic traditions, the Jamaican dancehall tradition, and African American vernacular expressions to its permeation of the cultural mainstream as a major tenet of the hip-hop style."--cover.
Subjects: Rap (Music), Social aspects, History and criticism, Aspect social, Histoire et critique, Rap (Musique), Rap, Geschichte, Music, history and criticism, Hiphop