Signifying Rappers
Autor Mark Costello, David Foster Wallaceen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 iul 2013
Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop." The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom.Signifying Rappersissued a fan's challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: Could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised?
Back in print at last,Signifying Rappersis a rare record of a city and a summer by two great thinkers, writers, and friends. With a new foreword by Mark Costello on his experience writing with David Foster Wallace, this rerelease cannot be missed.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316225830
ISBN-10: 0316225835
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316225835
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
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Notă biografică
David
Foster
Wallace
was
born
in
Ithaca,
New
York,
in
1962
and
raised
in
Illinois,
where
he
was
a
regionally
ranked
junior
tennis
player.
He
received
bachelor
of
arts
degrees
in
philosophy
and
English
from
Amherst
College
and
wrote
what
would
become
his
first
novel,The
Broom
of
the
System,
as
his
senior
English
thesis.
He
received
a
masters
of
fine
arts
from
University
of
Arizona
in
1987
and
briefly
pursued
graduate
work
in
philosophy
at
Harvard
University.
His
second
novel,Infinite
Jest,
was
published
in
1996.
Wallace
taught
creative
writing
at
Emerson
College,
Illinois
State
University,
and
Pomona
College,
and
published
the
story
collectionsGirl
with
Curious
Hair,Brief
Interviews
with
Hideous
Men,Oblivion,the
essay
collectionsA
Supposedly
Fun
Thing
I'll
Never
Do
Again,andConsider
the
Lobster.
He
was
awarded
the
MacArthur
Fellowship,
a
Lannan
Literary
Award,
and
a
Whiting
Writers'
Award,
and
was
appointed
to
the
Usage
Panel
for
The
American
Heritage
Dictionary
of
the
English
Language.
He
died
in
2008.
His
last
novel,The
Pale
King,
was
published
in
2011.
Recenzii
ACCLAIM
FOR
DAVID
FOSTER
WALLACE:
"The Best Mind of His Generation"—A.O. Scott,The New York Times
"A prose magician, Mr. Wallace was capable of writing...about subjects from tennis to politics to lobsters, from the horrors of drug withdrawal to the small terrors of life aboard a luxury cruise ship, with humor and fervor and verve. At his best he could write funny, write sad, write sardonic and write serious. He could map the infinite and infinitesimal, the mythic and mundane. He could conjure up an absurd future...while conveying the inroads the absurd has already made in a country where old television shows are a national touchstone and asinine advertisements wallpaper our lives."—Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times
"One of the most influential writers of his generation."—Timothy Williams,The New York Times
ACCLAIM FORSIGNIFYING RAPPERS:
"Costello and Wallace's pioneering study is a dazzling performance: informative, provocative, funny and brilliantly written, an intellectually wired style combining subtle and original thought with great wit, insight, and in-your-face energy."—Review of Contemporary Fiction
"Two educated white guys do the right thing by scoping out 'The Meaning of Rap' without pretending to know everything about it...Signifying Rappersis both a cogent explication of rap and a cutting, revealing parody of overinflated pseudointellectual rap criticism."—Seattle Weekly
"The Best Mind of His Generation"—A.O. Scott,The New York Times
"A prose magician, Mr. Wallace was capable of writing...about subjects from tennis to politics to lobsters, from the horrors of drug withdrawal to the small terrors of life aboard a luxury cruise ship, with humor and fervor and verve. At his best he could write funny, write sad, write sardonic and write serious. He could map the infinite and infinitesimal, the mythic and mundane. He could conjure up an absurd future...while conveying the inroads the absurd has already made in a country where old television shows are a national touchstone and asinine advertisements wallpaper our lives."—Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times
"One of the most influential writers of his generation."—Timothy Williams,The New York Times
ACCLAIM FORSIGNIFYING RAPPERS:
"Costello and Wallace's pioneering study is a dazzling performance: informative, provocative, funny and brilliantly written, an intellectually wired style combining subtle and original thought with great wit, insight, and in-your-face energy."—Review of Contemporary Fiction
"Two educated white guys do the right thing by scoping out 'The Meaning of Rap' without pretending to know everything about it...Signifying Rappersis both a cogent explication of rap and a cutting, revealing parody of overinflated pseudointellectual rap criticism."—Seattle Weekly