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Sounding Race in Rap Songs (Hardcover)
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Sounding Race in Rap Songs (Hardcover)
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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 us not only to see but also to
hear how mass-mediated culture engenders new understandings of
race. The book traces the changing sounds of race across some of
the best-known rap songs of the past thirty-five years, combining
song-level analysis with historical contextualization to show how
these representations of identity depend on specific artistic
decisions, such as those related to how producers make beats. Each
chapter explores the process behind the production of hit songs by
musicians including Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The
Sugarhill Gang, Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy, N.W.A., Dr. Dre, and
Eminem. This series of case studies highlights stylistic
differences in sound, lyrics, and imagery, with musical examples
and illustrations that help answer the core question: can we hear
race in rap songs? Integrating theory from interdisciplinary areas,
this book will resonate with students and scholars of popular
music, race relations, urban culture, ethnomusicology, sound
studies, and beyond.
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