Rap & hip-hop

CONTENTSOrigins: A sampling of the sphere of influence for Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), the debut album of the Digable Planets.The System: A shadowy synth-pop …

On the heels of Kendrick Lamars Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop,comes a writing guide from a musician and "e;The greatest MC of …

An intimate, definitive celebration of the world's most successful and critically acclaimed musician

As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly …

A first-person account by a founding member of Blondie recounts his witness to the birth of punk music, chronicling the transition of musical styles between the 1960s and 1980s …

The self-made musical artist follows his bestseller IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD with this second inspirational book for everyone who’s looking for answers in all the wrong places. It’s a …

The volume is a collection of scholarly essays and personal responses that contextualizes Hamilton: An American Musical in various frameworks: hip-hop theatre and history, American …

Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study …

While the history of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the great American stories of the twentieth century, the related Black …

For more than two decades, le hip hop has shown another face of France: danced by minorities associated with immigration and the suburbs, it has channeled rage against racism and …