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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.
This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research
and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American
Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series
published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American
Life, and African American Music in Global Perspective. In this
collection, a group of predominately Black scholars explores a
variety of topics with works that pioneered new methodologies and
modes of inquiry for hearing and studying Black music. These
extracts and articles examine the World War II jazz scene; look at
female artists like gospel star Shirley Caesar and jazz
musician-arranger Melba Liston; illuminate the South Bronx milieu
that folded many forms of black expressive culture into rap; and
explain Hamilton's massive success as part of the "tanning" of
American culture that began when Black music entered the
mainstream. Part sourcebook and part survey of historic music
scholarship, Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 collects
groundbreaking work that redefines our view of Black music and its
place in American music history. Contributors: Nelson George, Wayne
Everett Goins, Claudrena N. Harold, Eileen M. Hayes, Loren
Kajikawa, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tammy L. Kernodle, Cheryl L. Keyes,
Gwendolyn Pough, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Mark Tucker, and Sherrie
Tucker
This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research
and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American
Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series
published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American
Life, and African American Music in Global Perspective. In this
collection, a group of predominately Black scholars explores a
variety of topics with works that pioneered new methodologies and
modes of inquiry for hearing and studying Black music. These
extracts and articles examine the World War II jazz scene; look at
female artists like gospel star Shirley Caesar and jazz
musician-arranger Melba Liston; illuminate the South Bronx milieu
that folded many forms of black expressive culture into rap; and
explain Hamilton's massive success as part of the "tanning" of
American culture that began when Black music entered the
mainstream. Part sourcebook and part survey of historic music
scholarship, Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 collects
groundbreaking work that redefines our view of Black music and its
place in American music history. Contributors: Nelson George, Wayne
Everett Goins, Claudrena N. Harold, Eileen M. Hayes, Loren
Kajikawa, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tammy L. Kernodle, Cheryl L. Keyes,
Gwendolyn Pough, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Mark Tucker, and Sherrie
Tucker
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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