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  • 嘻哈囝:台灣饒舌故事

    華語世界第一本台灣饒舌專書 30年台灣饒舌故事 × 10位台灣饒舌人物大支、小人、熊仔、蛋堡、李英宏、夜貓組、草屯囝仔、BCW、熱狗、頑童MJ116 ──最真實的Real Talk 「我想讓這些嘻哈人述說自己的故事,談談在台灣當饒舌歌手怎麼生活,如何以生活為創作養份,又怎樣赤手空拳到橫掃整個樂壇。這是一群台灣小孩喜愛嘻哈並活在其中的故事,他們叫做嘻哈囝。」──顏社‧迪拉 1987年,「饒舌」兩字首次現身台灣,2018年,金曲獎高唱台灣早就有嘻哈。台灣饒舌從地下次文化躍上主流小巨蛋,期間經歷開天闢地的上古時代、黑暗與希望並存的中古時代,到如今眾聲喧嘩的新時代。 本書分成Side A與Side B兩輯,前者記錄台灣饒舌三十年故事,後者則為十位台灣當代饒舌人物的第一手訪談;那些風雲人物、精采作品與關鍵事件,共同成就了這些年台灣饒舌的精采。 這本書,獻給台灣饒舌故事裡的每一個人。 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 來韓老師這裡學饒舌:有了這一本,讓你饒舌不走冤枉路!

    by 韓森 ...
    台灣嘻哈圈第一本饒舌教戰守則節拍 × 韻律 × 押韻 × FLOW × 寫詞 × 創作 × 表演有了這一本,讓你饒舌不走冤枉路!◎嘻哈升學第一品牌「人人有功練饒舌班」只押「雙韻」精華講義◎最強饒舌補教名師韓老師帶你建構完整學習態度前進饒舌第一志願◎饒舌基本功滿及分從嘻哈文化、節拍與韻律、押韻、FLOW、寫詞、創作到表演……全面制霸◎金榜專家一齊開講大支、熱狗、蛋堡、熊仔……16位名師總複習題庫助你打通任督二脈饒舌前,先搞清楚再踏上這條不歸路!◎由校長大支創立的「人人有功練」音樂工作室,推廣饒舌教學超過十五年,旗下導師韓森,精研、傳授饒舌多年,是「人人有功練饒舌班」極受學生歡迎的「韓老師」。◎授課經驗豐富,韓森在《來韓老師這裡學饒舌》書中,將向來認為「只能意會」的饒舌技藝,「有系統」整理成各種實用教材--從嘻哈文化、節拍與韻... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • “This Is America”

    Race, Gender, and Politics in America’s Musical Landscape

    by Katie Rios ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Music and Society
    In*“This Is America”: Race, Gender, and Politics in America’s Musical Landscape*, Katie Rios argues that prominent American artists and musicians build encoded gestures of resistance into their works and challenge the status quo. These artists offer both an interpretation and a critique of what “This Is America” means. Using Childish Gambino’s video for “This Is America” as a starting point, Rios ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Как читать рэп

    Вы узнаете, как сделать, чтобы все приходили в восторг от вашего флоу; где брать идеи и как доносить их до слушателей; как писать цепляющие тексты и качественно рифмовать; как правильно дышать и держать темп; как выступать вживую, раскачивать зал, работать с группой и не совершать распространенных ошибок. Вас ждет детальный разбор создания песен — от идеи до ее воплощения на сцене или в студии. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • À l'Ombre des Feuilles

    Manuel d’écriture hip-hop

    by Webster ...
    Tremper le crin dans l'horizon s'accaparer le bleu du ciel Ton encrier c'est l'univers À toi de relater l'odyssée Aly Ndiaye, alias Webster, est un vétéran de la scène hip-hop québécoise. Actif depuis 1995, il a vu grandir ce mouvement de ses débuts modestes dans les parcs et les ruelles à son explosion commerciale des dernières années. Le rappeur, du quartier Limoilou à Québec, donne depuis ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Youth and Popular Culture in Africa

    Media, Music, and Politics

    Series Book 92 - Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
    Explores the range of vibrant cultural production and political activism of youth in Africa today, as expressed through art, music, theater, and online media.This edited collection focuses on the links between youth and African popular culture. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars explore popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. Essays cover a ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • You Know How It Feels?: Poetry, Prose, Hip-hop Lyrics

    This unique Poetry and Song Collection will delight lovers of poetry, prose, hip-hop, spoken world and song lyrics. It is a labor-of-love collaboration between Author Florencia LaChance and her talented hip-hop Songwriter & Rapper son, new Indie-Author and accomplished musical genius, Joshua LaChance. The idea of a collaboration occurred when Florencia LaChance, a 53 year-old, Generation X Poet, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yonkers The Lost City Of Hip-Hop

    by Jerome Enders ...
    Yonkers early Hip-Hop History - ( mid/late 70's)*Solo Sounds *The BedRock Crew *Just 4 *The Serious 3 *Wheels *Jackson St *King School. *Brown Eyes *Arthur's *School 12What most have recently begun to realize and appreciate is the hip-hop music that comes from the city of Yonkers, New York. From the block parties to the billboards, the demo tapes to the Grammy Awards, this book was designed to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writin' Dirty: An Anthology

    Byron Crawford is the founder and editor of the pioneering hip-hop blog ByronCrawford.com: The Mindset of a Champion, and the author of the books The Mindset of a Champion: Your Favorite Rapper's Least Favorite Book, Infinite Crab Meats, and Nas Lost: A Tribute to the Little Homey.Writin' Dirty is a collection of the 100 best essays he wrote from 2006 to 2011, when he wrote a daily column for XXL ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Write Lines: Adventures in Rap Journalism

    by Andrew Emery ...
    Having failed at rapping, what's next for an endlessly passionate rap nerd? In this sequel to the acclaimed memoir Wiggaz With Attitude, it turns out what's next is a sometimes controversial career in rap journalism. Write Lines: Adventures in Rap Journalism tells the tale of hip-hop writing from the inside.From death threats to interviewing Lauryn Hill while she's in the shower. From calling Jay ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women Rapping Revolution

    Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit

    Series Book 1 - California Series in Hip Hop Studies
    Detroit, MIchigan, has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project. Focusing on the Foundation, a women ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Wiggaz With Attitude: My Life as a Failed White Rapper

    by Andrew Emery ...
    Rapping into a hairbrush, breakdancing on the kitchen floor, carrying around the world’s smallest, quietest ghetto-blaster: in 1980’s Britain, long before the world has heard of Eminem, how does an aspiring white teenage rapper keep going in the face of universal ridicule?Wiggaz With Attitude is a unique and hilarious account of both the author's attempts to become Leeds’s greatest ever hip-hop ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Why Bushwick Bill Matters

    Series series Music Matters
    In 1989 the Geto Boys released a blistering track, “Size Ain’t Shit,” that paid tribute to the group’s member Bushwick Bill. Born with dwarfism, Bill was one of the few visibly disabled musicians to achieve widespread fame and one of the even fewer to address disability in a direct, sustained manner. Initially hired as a dancer, Bill became central to the Geto Boys as the Houston crew became one ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Who Shot Ya?

    Three Decades of HipHop Photography

    Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli, considered by many to be the James Van Der Zee of the hiphop generation, began photographing graffiti art throughout New York City as well as the young people creating it. Armed with a 35-millimeter camera, Paniccioli literally recorded the beginning salvos of hiphop, today the most dominant youth culture on the planet. Be it Grandmaster Flash at the Roxy ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Who Got the Camera?

    A History of Rap and Reality

    by Eric Harvey ...
    Series series American Music Series
    Reality first appeared in the late 1980s—in the sense not of real life but rather of the TV entertainment genre inaugurated by shows such as Cops and America’s Most Wanted; the daytime gabfests of Geraldo, Oprah, and Donahue; and the tabloid news of A Current Affair. In a bracing work of cultural criticism, Eric Harvey argues that reality TV emerged in dialog with another kind of entertainment ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Whatever You Say I Am

    The Life and Times of Eminem

    by Anthony Bozza ...
    does eminem matter?On assignment for his first cover story for Rolling Stone, the very first national cover story on Eminem, Anthony Bozza met a young blond kid, a rapper who would soon take the country by storm. But back in 1999, Eminem was just beginning to make waves among suburban white teenagers as his first single, “My Name Is,” went into heavy rotation on MTV.Who could have predicted that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • What Is Hip-Hop?

    Illustrated by Anny Yi ...
    Included in Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall 2017 feature"Morse and Yi (the team behind What Is Punk?) highlight hip-hop's cultural hegemony via an impressively encyclopedic parade of rhyming biographies. Yi's meticulously styled clay figures are as magical as in the previous book, combining profound expressiveness with the playfulness of action figures. Her compositions are equally ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Welcome 2 Houston

    Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town

    Series series African Amer Music in Global Perspective
    Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston’s hip hop culture. Interviews with local rap artists, producers, and managers inform an exploration of how artists, audiences, music, and place interact to create a heritage that musicians negotiate in a variety of ways. Street-based musicians, avant ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • We'll Play till We Die

    Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World

    by Mark LeVine ...
    In his iconic musical travelogue Heavy Metal Islam, Mark LeVine first brought the views and experiences of a still-young generation to the world. In We'll Play till We Die, he joins with this generation's leading voices to write a definitive history of the era, closing with a cowritten epilogue that explores the meanings and futures of youth music from North Africa to Southeast Asia.We'll Play ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • War Child

    A Child Soldier's Story

    In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer—with the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, and other resources—Jal's family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, on one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Walk This Way

    Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever

    by Geoff Edgers ...
    Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind “Walk This Way,” Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music.The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums, while clubs and house parties in New York City had spawned a new genre of music. At the time, though, hip hop's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Vrai parler

    Conversations avec le rap québécois

    by Jason Savard ...
    Vrai parler présente l'univers du rap québécois à travers les propos croisés de plus d'une quarantaine de ses acteurs. Dans une forme qui se trouve à mi-chemin entre une histoire orale et un portrait varié et nuancé de la scène actuelle, les artistes abordent des thèmes comme l'engagement, la présence des femmes, les liens avec les médias traditionnels et l'industrie de la musique populaire au ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Vibrate Higher

    A Rap Story

    by Talib Kweli ...
    WINNER OF THE PEN OAKLAND/JOSEPHINE MILES AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY LITERARY PRIZEFrom one of the most lyrically gifted, socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years, Vibrate Higher is a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political forceBefore Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip-hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who liked to cut class, spit rhymes, and w... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Vibe

    The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South

    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simultaneously excluded from it. Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North Carolina use "vibe" as a mode of knowing and communication, author Corey J. Miles illustrates how Black feeling and unfeeling offer entry points ... Read more

    $17.99 USD