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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1. Verfasser: Viator, Felicia Angeja, 1978- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2020
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9780674245853
0674245857
9780674245839
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