Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop

ISBN-10: 0465094414
ISBN-13: 9780465094417
Category: Music
Pages: 288
Language: English
Published: 2017-06-27
Publisher: Civitas Books
Author: Adam Bradley

Description

If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners.Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.

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Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
- 2017-06-27
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- Civitas Books
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
- 2009-02-24
- 194 pages
- Paperback
- Civitas Books

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