Description
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive look at the meanings and uses of rap music and hip hop culture among Chicano/a youth.
Trade Review"This study of Chicano rap music is truly a first of its kind... a single-focus study on Chicano rap, its musicians and politics, and how rap and hip hop is a musical counter-narrative to the disenfranchisement of working class barrios." Arturo Aldama, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America, University of Colorado, Boulder
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Hip-Hop Project
- Chapter One. Reading Chicano Rap: The Patriarchal Dominance Paradigm in the Postindustrial Barrio
- Chapter Two. Chicano Rap Primer: A Guide to Artists and Genres
- Chapter Three. Machos y Malas Mujeres: The Gendered Image
- Chapter Four. Sexual Agency in Chicana Rap: JV Versus Ms. Sancha
- Chapter Five. Violence and Chicano Rap: Mirror of a Belligerent Society
- Chapter Six. The Chicano Rap on Globalization
- Chapter Seven. Confronting Dominance and Constructing Relationships with Young People
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
