To live and defy in LA [electronic resource] : how gangsta rap changed America / Felicia Angeja Viator.

"In its early days, rap was understood as the poetry of the "inner city," which usually meant New York. Few expected anything as hard-edged as gangsta rap to emerge from Los Angeles, home of surf and sun. Felicia Viator tells the story of LA's self-styled "ghetto reporters," whose music forced Ameri...

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Main Author: Viator, Felicia Angeja, 1978- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
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To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America
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To live and defy in LA : how gangsta rap changed America

Authors: Viator, Felicia Angeja, 1978-
Published: Harvard University Press, 2020
Physical Description: xi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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