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Title:

Beats, rhymes, & life : what we love and hate about hip-hop / edited by Kenji Jasper and Ytasha L. Womack ; photos by Robert Johnson III ; reporting-at-large by Mark Allwood.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Harlem Moon/Broadway Books,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

ix, 307 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Hip-hop.
Rap (Music)
African American youth--Intellectual life.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African American youth--Social conditions.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Rap musicians--Interviews.
Interviews.
United States--Intellectual life.
United States--Social conditions--1980-

Other Authors:

Jasper, Kenji.
Womack, Ytasha.
Allwood, Mark.

Summary:

Collects essays on modern hip-hop music and culture in which music journalists look at some of the most controversial ideas, symbols, and images in rap, and includes interviews with some of the genre's leading stars.

ISBN:

0767919777
9780767919777

LCCN:

2006025892

Locations:

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

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)