Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
140 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1990
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This edition
ISBN: 9780880015356
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: The Ecco Press
Publication date: 1 January 1997
Description
The author of Infinite Jest and his co-writer discuss rap and popular culture, power, money, racial politics, and language in the first book to seriously consider rap and its position as a vital force in American culture. "Brilliantly written . . . (with) great wit, insight, and in-your-face energy."--Review of Contemporary Fiction.
