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Blowin' up : rap dreams in South Central / Jooyoung Lee.
LIBRA ML3531 .L44 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Jooyoung, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rap musicians--California--Los Angeles.
- Rap musicians.
- Rap (Music)--History and criticism.
- Rap (Music).
- African American teenage boys--California--Los Angeles.
- African American teenage boys.
- Music trade--California--Los Angeles.
- Music trade.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Preface: Down Crenshaw Boulevard
- Introduction: rap dreams and existential urgency
- Becoming rappers
- Growing up in gangland
- Masters of ceremony
- Freestyle
- Battle
- Trying to blow up
- Cautionary tales
- Almost famous
- Ditching the day job
- Gang violence and dreams derailed
- Conclusion: nurturing the creative lives of young black men
- Shout outs
- Methods appendix: videos in ethnography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226348896
- 9780226348759
- 022634875X
- 022634889X
- OCLC:
- 916408513
- Publisher Number:
- 99967316259
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