Chicago hustle and flow : gangs, gangsta rap, and social class / Geoff Harkness.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harkness, Geoffrey Victor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gangsta rap (Music)--Social aspects--United States.

Gangsta rap (Music).

Gangsta rap (Music)--Illinois--Chicago--History and criticism.

Gangs--Illinois--Chicago.

Gangs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On September 4, 2012, Joseph Coleman, an eighteen-year-old aspiring gangsta rapper, was gunned down in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Police immediately began investigating the connections between Coleman's murder and an online war of words and music he was having with another Chicago rapper in a rival gang. In Chicago Hustle and Flow, Geoff Harkness points out how common this type of incident can be when rap groups form as extensions of gangs. Gangs and rap music, he argues, can be a deadly combination. Set in one of the largest underground music scenes in the nation, this book takes

Contents:

Introduction. Welcome to the terrordome : Chicago's gangsta-rap microscene

Who shot ya : a tale of two gangsta-rap rivals

The blueprint : social class and the rise of the rap hustler

Bangin' on wax : recording studios as symbolic spaces

In da club : how social class shapes the performative context

Capital punishment : crime and risk management in the rap game

Conclusion. Rap hustlers or sucker MCs?

Epilogue. Six years later.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4959-X

0-8166-9228-9

1-4529-4398-2

OCLC:

893632594