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)

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)

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.

Ordered by King Trent to determine the source of Xanth's magic, Bink and his companions were harried by an unseen enemy determined to thwart them. When even their protector turned against them, Bink still managed to reach his goal and carry out the King's orders...but the king did not expect Bink's next act--to destroy utterly the magic of Xanth!

Ordered by King Trent to determine the source of Xanth's magic, Bink and his companions were harried by an unseen enemy determined to thwart them. When even their protector turned against them, Blink still managed to reach his goal and carry out the King's orders...but the king did not expect Blink's next act--to destroy utterly the magic of Xanth!

Ordered by King Trent to determine the source of Xanth's magic, Bink and his companions were harried by an unseen enemy determined to thwart them. When even their protector turned against them, Bink still managed to reach his goal and carry out the King's orders...but the king did not expect Bink's next act--to destroy utterly the magic of Xanth!

Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and the events that led to its disastrous collapse. Here, in volumes one and two, Gibbo...(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。

In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan's vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs and recording studios. Illuminating different aspects of Japanese hip-hop, Condry chronicles how self-described "yellow B-Boys" express their devotion to "black culture," how they comb...(展开全部)