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The Real Hiphop – Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the LA Underground

Autor Marcyliena Morgan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 apr 2009
Project Blowed is a legendary hiphop workshop based in Los Angeles. It began in 1994 when a group of youth moved their already renowned open-mic nights from The Good Life, a Crenshaw district health food store, to the KAOS Network, an arts centre in Leimert Park. The local freestyle of articulate, rapid-fire, extemporaneous delivery; the juxtaposition of multiple meaningful words and sounds; and the way that MCs follow one another without missing a beat, quickly became known throughout L.A.’s underground. Leimert Park has long been a centre of African American culture and arts in Los Angeles; Project Blowed inspired youth throughout the city to consider the neighbourhood the epicentre of their own cultural movement. The Real Hiphop is an in-depth account of the language and culture of Project Blowed, based on the seven years Marcyliena Morgan spent observing the workshop and the KAOS Network. Morgan is a leading scholar of hiphop, and throughout the volume her ethnographic analysis of the L.A. underground opens up into a broader examination of the artistic and cultural value of hiphop. Morgan intersperses her observations with excerpts from interviews and transcripts of freestyle lyrics. Providing a thorough linguistic interpretation of the music, she teases out the cultural antecedents and ideologies embedded in the language, emphases, and wordplay. She discusses the artistic skills and cultural knowledge MCs must acquire to rock the mic, the socialization of hiphop culture’s core and long-term members, and the persistent focus on skills, competition, and evaluation. She brings attention to adults who provided material and moral support to sustain underground hiphop, identifies the ways that women choose to participate in Project Blowed, and vividly renders the dynamics of the workshop’s famous lyrical battles.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822343851
ISBN-10: 0822343851
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 16 photographs
Dimensiuni: 168 x 227 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: I Am Hiphop 1
1. The Hippest Corner in LA 21
2. Welcome to the Underground: Building Hiphop Culture and Language 47
3. Thursday Night at Project Blowed 85
4. (Ph)eminists of the New School: Real Women, Tough Politics, and Female Science 131
5. Politics, Discourse, and Drama: "Respect Due" 161
6. It's Hiphop Nation Time: Enter the KAOS 185
Appendix: Transcription Conventions 195
Notes 197
Glossary 207
References 211
Index 223

Recenzii

“The Real Hiphop is a powerful argument for hiphop’s continuing salience and centrality to any serious discussion about the state of contemporary Black life. Marcyliena Morgan unearths the socio-cultural particularities of hiphop as a dynamic musical genre and a complex way of life, and she links her analysis to the ethnographic particulars of Los Angeles, which crackles to life from the opening vignette.” John L. Jackson Jr., author of Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America“In The Real Hiphop, Marcyliena Morgan has written a brilliant account of the origins of hiphop and the process through which it is created and evolves, from its most elemental and raw forms into the highly processed and polished versions that have become the lingua franca of popular American culture over the past few decades. Using her considerable skills as a linguistic anthropologist, Morgan—the founder of the world’s only hiphop archive—raises the analysis of hiphop to an entirely new level of scholarship, explicating it as a linguistic, sociological, and political phenomenon. This book is full of astonishing insights and subtle analysis. It is a must read for any student or scholar seeking to understand what is arguably the most important popular cultural phenomenon in the past thirty years.” Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

Notă biografică

Marcyliena Morgan, Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, is the founder and executive director of the Hiphop Archive and the author of "Language, Discourse, and Power in African American Culture."

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"In "The Real Hiphop," Marcyliena Morgan has written a brilliant account of the origins of hiphop and the process through which it is created and evolves, from its most elemental and raw forms into the highly processed and polished versions that have become the lingua franca of popular American culture over the past few decades. Using her considerable skills as an linguistic anthropologist, Morgan--the founder of the world's only hiphop archive--raises the analysis of hiphop to an entirely new level of scholarship, explicating it as a linguistic, sociological, and political phenomenon. This book is full of astonishing insights and subtle analysis. It is a must read for any student or scholar seeking to understand what is arguably the most important popular cultural phenomenon in the past thirty years."--Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

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An in-depth analysis of the language and culture of Project Blowed, a legendary hiphop workshop based in Los Angeles