To live and defy in LA: how gangsta rap changed America

"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,&...

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Main Author: Viator, Felicia Angeja 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England Harvard University Press 2020
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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"--
Physical Description:xi, 337 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780674976368

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