PDF-(BOOS)-Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music / Culture)

From its beginnings in hip hop culture the dense rhythms and aggressive lyrics of rap music have made it a provocative fixture on the American cultural landscape In Black Noise Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America Tricia Rose described by the New York Times as a hip hop theorist takes a comprehensive look at the lyrics music cultures themes and styles of this highly rhythmic rhymed storytelling and grapples with the most salient issues and debates that surround itAssistant Professor of Africana Studies and History at New York University Tricia Rose sorts through raps multiple voices by exploring its underlying urban cultural politics particularly the influential New York City rap scene and discusses rap as a unique musical form in which traditional Africanbased oral traditions fuse with cuttingedge music technologies Next she takes up raps racial politics its sharp criticisms of the police and the government and the responses of those institutions Finally she explores the complex sexual politics of rap including questions of misogyny sexual domination and female rappers critiques of menBut these debates do not overshadow rappers own words and thoughts Rose also closely examines the lyrics and videos for songs by artists such as Public Enemy KRSOne Salt N Pepa MC Lyte and L L Cool J and draws on candid interviews with Queen Latifah music producer Eric Vietnam Sadler dancer Crazy Legs and others to paint the full range of raps political and aesthetic spectrum In the end Rose observes rap music remains a vibrant force with its own aesthetic a noisy and powerful element of contemporary American popular culture which continues to draw a great deal of attention to itself. 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