The 'hood comes first : race, space, and place in rap and hip-hop /
The 'Hood Comes First looks at the increasingly specific emphasis on real neighborhoods and streets in rap music and hip hop culture as an urgent response to the cultural and geographical ghettoization of black urban communities. Examining rap music, along with ancillary hip hop media including...
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Middletown, Conn. :
Wesleyan University Press,
©2002.
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| Series: | Music/culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Space matters : hip-hop and the spatial perspective
- "Welcome to the city" : defining and delineating the urban terrain
- Old-school geography : from the disco to the street
- Growing an industry : the corporate expansion of hip-hop
- Crossover and fragmentation : rap in the platinum era
- Boyz n girlz in the 'hood : from space to place
- Hip-hop media : dissemination throughout the nation
- "The 'hood took me under" : urban geographies of danger and the cinematic 'hood genre
- Industry, nation, globe : hip-hop toward 2000.