Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop has been a generation-defining global movement. In a postÂ-civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop gave voiceless youths a chance to address these seismic changes, and became a job-making engine and the Esperanto of youth rebellion. Hip-hop crystallized a multiracial g...(展开全部)

The Big Payback takes us from the first $15 made by a "rapping DJ" in 1970s New York to the recent multi-million-dollar sales of the Phat Farm and Roc-a-Wear clothing companies in 2004 and 2007. On this four-decade-long journey from the studios where the first rap records were made to the boardrooms where the big deals were inked, The Big Payback tallies the list of who lost...(展开全部)

In the book How to Rap, Guerilla Black notes that Eminem studied other MCs to create his rapping technique – “Eminem listened to everything and that’s what made him one of the greats”. Eminem is praised there for various aspects of his rapping technique by numerous other MCs – these techniques include: his varied and humorous subject matter, connecting with his audience, carry...(展开全部)

尼尔森·乔治著有十部非裔美国文化的非虚构类图书以及四部小说，曾两次荣获“美国作曲家、作家与出 版商协会”的迪恩斯·泰勒奖，一次夺得格莱美奖，他所著的《嘻哈美国》和《提升比赛》均获得了前哥 伦布基金会的美国图书奖。《嘻哈美国》和《节奏与布鲁斯之殇》曾入围国家 图书书评人奖决选名单 。他为多家国家级杂志撰稿，包括《花花公子》、《公告牌》、《君子》、《音乐潮》、《品质》和 《乡村之音》，并策划制作了多档电视节目，以及两部专题片。他最新的电影《日常生活中的人们》 最近在HBO首映。

Now with a new introduction by the author, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between black youth culture and the mass media.

Founders of the phenomenally successful publishing company Lonely Planet, Tony and Maureen Wheeler have produced travel guides to just about every corner of the globe. Lonely Planet Publications was born in 1973 when the Wheelers self-published a quirky travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. This was quickly followed by what soon became the backpackersbible, South-East Asia on...(展开全部)

Founders of the phenomenally successful publishing company Lonely Planet, Tony and Maureen Wheeler have produced travel guides to just about every corner of the globe. Lonely Planet Publications was born in 1973 when the Wheelers self-published a quirky travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. This was quickly followed by what soon became the backpackersbible, South-East Asia on...(展开全部)

Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an important American novelist of the 20th century. He wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works, and novel fragments. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodical, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written during the Great Depression, depict...(展开全部)

Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an important American novelist of the 20th century. He wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works, and novel fragments. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodical, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written during the Great Depression, depict...(展开全部)

尼尔森·乔治著有十部非裔美国文化的非虚构类图书以及四部小说，曾两次荣获“美国作曲家、作家与出 版商协会”的迪恩斯·泰勒奖，一次夺得格莱美奖，他所著的《嘻哈美国》和《提升比赛》均获得了前哥 伦布基金会的美国图书奖。《嘻哈美国》和《节奏与布鲁斯之殇》曾入围国家 图书书评人奖决选名单 。他为多家国家级杂志撰稿，包括《花花公子》、《公告牌》、《君子》、《音乐潮》、《品质》和 《乡村之音》，并策划制作了多档电视节目，以及两部专题片。他最新的电影《日常生活中的人们》 最近在HBO首映。