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  • Negro Soy Yo

    Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba

    by Marc D. Perry ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways these young artists craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship, along with calls for ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Can't Stop Won't Stop

    A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

    by Jeff Chang ...
    Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Enter the Babylon System

    Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent

    by Rodrigo Bascunan, Christian Pearce ...
    A docu-style investigation of our fascination with the gun, from the perspective of the hip-hop generation.The 2003 shooting death of Toronto community-centre worker Kempton Howard put the spotlight on hip hop’s fixation with guns. Media and police soon blamed rap music and its tales of gang life on bullet-ridden US streets for the rising use of firearms in Canadian crime. Were these songs artful ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Legends of Music: Tupac Shakur

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes a Suggested Playlist of some of Pac's lesser known songs. *Discusses both the New York shooting and Las Vegas shooting in detail, explaining who was likely responsible for the shooting.*Discusses the beefs during Pac's life and the various conspiracy theories surrounding his death. *Includes a Table of ContentsAt the renowned Coachella music festival in 2012, crowds looked on with awe ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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 Enemy No. 1

    by Cyrus Bozorgmehr ...
    The 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 comic book proportions: Martin Shkreli.In 2007, the innovative young Wu-Tang producer, Cilvaringz, took an incendiary idea to his mentor the RZA. They felt that the impact of digitization threatened ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Eminem and the Detroit Rap Scene

    White Kid in a Black Music World

    by Isabelle Esling ...
    With never before seen photos and interviews and dedicated to the memory of Big Proof, the founder of D12 and Eminem, this book will take you deep into the heart of the Detroit Ghetto with Eminem long before D12 and the Aftermath with D12. With over 100 million albums sold worldwide and Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, ASCAP Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, Gold and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Lobotomy

    Surviving the Ramones

    by Dee Dee Ramone, Veronica Kofman ...
    "A definitive work on the New York punk scene . . . a compelling, raw nerve rampage through the frazzled brain of one of rock's most tragic heroes." —Ian Fortnam, VoxLobotomy is a lurid and unlikely temperance tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster ride from his crazy childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely methadone-soaked stay at a cheap hotel in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Prophets of the Hood

    Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop

    by Imani Perry ...
    At 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 vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood. ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Hip Hop Tried 2 Kill Me

    by Fleetwood ...
    The pursuit of hip hop stardom is a road that so many travel in the urban community. Taking their life in poverty, the drug environment,the attraction of crime, and putting it on display with their words for the world to listen to. Only to discover that the music business is more cut throat than the corners in the hood they are trying so hard to escape. This story of a T.V. host, rapper, producer, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cuba in the American Imagination

    Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos

    by Louis A. Pérez Jr. ...
    For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images — Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Pérez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • A Cultural History of Cuba during the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902

    by Marial Iglesias Utset ...
    Translated by Russ Davidson ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    In this cultural history of Cuba during the United States' brief but influential occupation from 1898 to 1902 — a key transitional period following the Spanish-American War — Marial Iglesias Utset sheds light on the complex set of pressures that guided the formation and production of a burgeoning Cuban nationalism.Drawing on archival and published sources, Iglesias illustrates the process by which ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Kid Gavilan World Welterweight Boxing Champion

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Kid Gavilan was a fixture in the boxing world of the early 1950s. He fought on television more than thirty times, in bouts for championships and non-title fights. From Camaguey, Cuba, the Kid was named by his first manager, who had a restaurant called El Gavilan or The Little Hawk. Kid Gavilan fought the majority of his fights in the United States after arriving here in the 1940s. Kid fought Sugar ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus