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Author:

Viator, Felicia Angeja, 1978- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Gangsta rap (Music)--Social aspects--United States.
Gangsta rap (Music)--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History and criticism.
Inner cities--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
Urban youth--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: They don't even know -- The Batterram -- Hardcore L.A. -- The boys in the hood are always hard -- Somebody's gonna pay attention -- Without a gun and a badge -- Conclusion: L.A County blues.

Summary:

"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 America to see an urban crisis it preferred to ignore"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0674976363
9780674976368

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1111380132

LCCN:

2019040585

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)