Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop
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Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop
$24.95 Add to cartFirst book on hip-hop sampling as a musical process, now with a new foreword and afterword
Winner of IASPM’s 2005 International Book Award
Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making
- Series: Music / Culture
- Author: Schloss, Joseph G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0819574813
- Language: English
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High and Rising: A Book about de la Soul
$29.99 Add to cartA stunning cultural biography of De La Soul, the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever.
De La Soul burst onto the scene with the release of their groundbreaki
- Author: Moore, Marcus J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0358494885
- Language: English
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Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
$27.50 Read moreA Tribe Called Quest – Beastie Boys – De La Soul – Eric B. & Rakim – The Fugees – KRS-One – Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Public Enemy – The Roots – Run-DMC – Wu-Tang Clan – and twenty-five more hip-hop imm… [more below]
- Author: Coleman, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0812977750
- Language: English
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Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label
$27.95 Read moreSinger. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer.
Janelle Monáe is all these things and more, making h- Series: Global Media and Race
- Author: Hassler-Forest, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: May 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1978826680
- Language: English
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Her Word Is Bond: Navigating Hip Hop and Relationships in a Culture of Misogyny
$19.95 Read moreHer Word is Bond recounts the triumphs and setbacks of a rap legend who blazed a new trail for women in hip hop.
- Series: Break Beat Poets
- Author: Bowen, Cristalle Psalm One
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 164259461X
- Language: English
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
$14.95 Read moreChristopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing –
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weingarten, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0826429130
- Language: English
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Together Forever: The Run-DMC and Beastie Boys Photographs
$45.00 Read more“People always get caught up in what these two iconic groups stood for, but can we just step back for a moment and say, who gives a fuck? They were good! They made amazing records!…Rap parallels pun… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Glen E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0847866475
- Language: English
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Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop
$22.95 Read moreHow sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
Sampling–incorporating found sound and manipulati
- Author: Patrin, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1517906288
- Language: English
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The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up
$30.28 Add to cartThe untold story of how breaking – one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today – began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.
Breaki- Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
- Author: Aprahamian, Serouj Midus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394304
- Language: English
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De La Soul
$18.00 Add to cartDe La Soul has been an indestructible creative force over the past thirty years. From the nonconformist humor of their Day-Glo debut, 3 Feet High and Rising, to their eventual role as hip-hop elders,
- Author: Heaton, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989194766
- Language: English
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
$24.95 Add to cartA comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of rap music.
Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (1995)
From its beginnings in hip hop culture,
- Series: Music / Culture
- Author: Rose, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: April 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0819562750
- Language: English
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Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made
$21.99 Add to cartJuggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made is a vivid journey into the heart of a misunderstood subculture. Through firsthand reporting, including interviews with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope … [more below]
- Author: Miller, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0306823772
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of Wu-Tang Clan’s Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America’s New Public Ene
$21.99 Add to cartThe untold story of the world’s most controversial album—a surreal tale of secret recordings, the Wu-Tang Clan, baffled customs agents, the world’s most hallowed art institutions, and a villain of c
- Author: Bozorgmehr, Cyrus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1250177839
- Language: English
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Juggalo Country: Inside the World of Insane Clown Posse and America’s Weirdest Music Scene
$16.95 Read moreWHOOP WHOOP The Insane Clown Posse calls itself “the most hated band in the world,” but with 11 million albums sold, the horrorcore hip hop duo from Detroit is a widespread music phenomenon with a c… [more below]
- Series: Scene History
- Author: Rock, Craven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1621063186
- Language: English
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Concise Guide to Hip-Hop Music
$17.99 Add to cartIn 1973, the music scene was forever changed by the emergence of hip-hop. Masterfully blending the rhythmic grooves of funk and soul with layered beats and chanted rhymes, artists such as DJ Kool Herc
- Author: Edwards, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1250034817
- Language: English
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Rapper’s Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made the World
$79.95 Add to cart’50 years later, hip hop’s influence has never been stronger. This book is proof of that – a must have for collectors, artists, dreamers, and hip hop heads everywhere.’ – Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean), r
- Author: Boyd, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: February 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1838666222
- Language: English
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Trip-Hop
$19.95 Read moreTrip-hop described some of the 1990s’ best music, and it was one of the decade’s most revealing bad ideas.
The music itself was an intoxication of beats, bass, and voice. It emerged amid the social te- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Wheaton, R. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1501373609
- Language: English
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Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
$26.95 Add to cartAt once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this v… [more below]
- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0822334461
- Language: English
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Yo! the Early Days of Hip Hop 1982-84: Photography by Sophie Bramly
$49.95 Add to cartThe birth of hip hop in New York: rare images of the bands, the MCs and DJs, the artists and the fans, from Afrika Bambaataa and Run-DMC to Keith Haring and the Rock Steady Crew
This book features more
- Author: Bramly, Sophie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1916359825
- Language: English
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The History of Miami Hip Hop: The Story of DJ Khaled, Pitbull, DJ Craze, and Other Contributors to South Florida’s Scene
$16.95 Read more“In the late 90s, the music scene in Miami was at the infancy of becoming the multi-million dollar cultural and artistic force that it is today. Musicians like Pitbull, DJ Khaled, and countless others… [more below]
- Series: Scene History
- Author: Cordero, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 162106395X
- Language: English
