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If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop’s revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC’s wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners.
Examining rap history’s most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America’s least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.
From the Publisher
Publisher : Basic Books; Revised edition (June 27, 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 0465094406
ISBN-13 : 978-0465094400
Item Weight : 8.6 ounces
Dimensions : 5.6 x 0.95 x 8.25 inches
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Customers find the book well-written and researched. It provides useful insights and analysis into rap music concepts. Readers praise the author’s knowledge of the subject matter and consider it a must-read for scholars and fans of hip-hop music.
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