Sounding race in rap songs / Loren Kajikawa.

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"As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness. Sounding Race in Rap Songs argues that rap music allows u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kajikawa, Loren, 1975- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Rap (Music) > Social aspects > United States.
Music and race.
Race awareness > United States.
Racism in popular culture > United States.
Physical Description:xi, 205 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Rapper's delight" : from genre-less to new genre
  • "Rebel without a pause" : public enemy revolutionizes the break
  • "Let me ride" : gangsta rap's drive into the popular mainstream
  • "My name is" : signifying whiteness, rearticulating race
  • Conclusion : sounding race in the twenty-first century.