the new BEATS redux: exploring the music, culture, and attitudes of hip-hop<\/b>
\n206 pages
\nISBN<\/b>: 978-1-936411-49-8
\nPrice<\/b>: $19.95<\/p>\n
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With a mix of in-your-face journalism . . . and a knack for communicating musical sound through the written word,…Fernando has created a fast-paced oral history that will prove important even when the dust settles from this still-developing form.<\/em> Fernando has written an excellent social history of hip-hop culture . . . and rap music . . . . He also discusses the prominence of gangs in most urban areas and the music’s unique expression of contemporary urban experience. Fernando outlines the role of rap as a chronicle for youth culture and uses examples to demonstrate the pleas of many rappers for a more humane, cooperative, less violent, Afrocentric community.<\/em> the new BEATS redux: exploring the music, culture, and attitudes of hip-hop 206 pages ISBN: 978-1-936411-49-8 Price: $19.95 With a mix of in-your-face journalism . . . and a knack for communicating musical sound through the written word,…Fernando has created a fast-paced oral history that will prove important even when the dust settles from …<\/p>\n
\n\u2014Publisher’s Weekly<\/p>\n
\n\u2014Library Journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"